Reply #2: Money and a job has to be my top concern.

[xmas74]

I'm not a kid anymore. :) I have a kid to support so I have to have a job when I complete my degree.

My local university doesn't offer much in the way of engineering so that's out. I cannot afford to relocate for school and wouldn't dream of doing something like that to my child, only to relocate her yet again after graduation.

Business degrees in my area are a dime a dozen. I know plenty of MBAs working for $12 an hour around here. It's a very competitive market when it comes to business degrees in my neck of the woods. Can I relocate? It would have to be worth relocating, since a court battle will be necessary in order to do so. (I must have consent from her father, who is not in her life, in order to move more than 50 miles from our current residence. This was a very recent update, which was once just any move outside of the state. In my state, the court battle isn't all that easy-I know a few who have lost, even though they had good jobs waiting for them and a better situation.)

If I could do whatever I wanted I'd get a degree in history. It's what I've always loved. The problem is that this is no longer about "what I want". It's about what is best for my child.