BF2S Forums So I've got a "little" problem...

-Sh1fty- wrote:

In this situation I think it's appropriate that he should pay for his children to receive clothing, food, and an education (college or w/e). The point is, they're still that person's children.

My mother should also get a job and help with these but he's still the father.

21st century morals are so fucked up. Don't refer to them.

Guess you just have to accept that your dad is a dick and probably is going to leave you and his "old family" behind and go off with his new family.

In Aus the parent with custody can't fuck off and take the kids off more than 100km afaik without signing a release form (happened for my mom and dad when they got divorced).

I think it'll be better if you speak to your dad and say the situation is grim for you and your sis and he'd probably come to his senses a lot more than if he's talking to your mom. Divorced parents usually hate each others guts (especially at this stage of the divorce) but would still love their kids. YOU have to talk to your dad about financials, not your mom.

Your dad should be legally responsible to provide child support until you are 18.

"will have to pay for college if I choose to do so?"

that's a new one for me.

I've just never heard of any support being mandated once the kids are adults.

Fuck it... dont lose focus, be there for your mom and sisters. u r da man naow!

19?

Explain this then:

shifty wrote:

Even though I take a lot of shit around here, I've loved the years I've spent with you guys. It's been 4 years for me. I registered back when I was 13, damn. I've been through so many events in life since then, many of which I've shared here.

Im going to assume so, considering 992 is less than 1500 >.>

Why go to college rdx-fx? I have no idea what I want to do later in life. I enjoyed studying computer science. I'd build computers, install them, customize their settings with file sharing and tons of other things, did some network engineering, cabling the network cables, terminating them, programming in C, learned XHTML and CSS, did photoshop, etc. I enjoyed all that but I really don't want a job where I'm stuck in a freaking cubicle all day long.

The military is really appealing to me because it's most often outdoors, I get to get dirty, blow crap up, know that I'm serving my country, etc. It's not sitting in a freaking office typing away at a keyboard where I don't feel productive. Maybe do some construction or something.

Basically, I want to choose a career path that will keep me from sitting behind a desk 6 days a week. I still want to be able to afford a family though. I don't want to barely get by and live paycheck to paycheck but I don't want to study 4-8 years and drive a porshe. My plan was join Marines @ 18, do college whilst in the Marines, preferably that computer science even though I'd be in a desk later, and then after 8 years or so resign and do whatever. I thought the military was a good kick-start.

Right now I can join the Army. I spoke with their recruiters and they said I could basically enlist right now if I wanted to (and insisted I do right then). I'd rather be a Marine though.

lol mawhweens.

they really do attract the bottom scraps of society.

go to college shitty.

Jaekus wrote:

I can't believe you're basically being handed a free ride through college and you're not taking it up.

Thousands of people would give their right arm for that.

Cybargs wrote:

Jaekus wrote:

I can't believe you're basically being handed a free ride through college and you're not taking it up.

Thousands of people would give their right arm for that.

then its not a free ride now is it

Man, he could get a degree and have a career that spans decades with the potential to make a lot of money, and when he gets a management position in ~10 years time he's on a good wicket.

Or, he can spend the next year or two trying to join the marines, finds out in a decade once he's done he's pretty much back to square one (with my ignorance about possible career paths for ex-military service clearly on display here, feel free to correct me) and then he's going to go for that IT job?

Umm, ok

-Sh1fty- wrote:

Why go to college rdx-fx? I have no idea what I want to do later in life. I enjoyed studying computer science. I'd build computers, install them, customize their settings with file sharing and tons of other things, did some network engineering, cabling the network cables, terminating them, programming in C, learned XHTML and CSS, did photoshop, etc. I enjoyed all that but I really don't want a job where I'm stuck in a freaking cubicle all day long.

The military is really appealing to me because it's most often outdoors, I get to get dirty, blow crap up, know that I'm serving my country, etc. It's not sitting in a freaking office typing away at a keyboard where I don't feel productive. Maybe do some construction or something.

Basically, I want to choose a career path that will keep me from sitting behind a desk 6 days a week. I still want to be able to afford a family though. I don't want to barely get by and live paycheck to paycheck but I don't want to study 4-8 years and drive a porshe. My plan was join Marines @ 18, do college whilst in the Marines, preferably that computer science even though I'd be in a desk later, and then after 8 years or so resign and do whatever. I thought the military was a good kick-start.

Right now I can join the Army. I spoke with their recruiters and they said I could basically enlist right now if I wanted to (and insisted I do right then). I'd rather be a Marine though.

Become a structural engineer and work in construction.

Jay wrote:

Jaekus wrote:

Cybargs wrote:

then its not a free ride now is it

Man, he could get a degree and have a career that spans decades with the potential to make a lot of money, and when he gets a management position in ~10 years time he's on a good wicket.

Or, he can spend the next year or two trying to join the marines, finds out in a decade once he's done he's pretty much back to square one (with my ignorance about possible career paths for ex-military service clearly on display here, feel free to correct me) and then he's going to go for that IT job?

Umm, ok

I felt like I ended up right where I was before I joined. Complete waste of time Going to college in your late 20s sucks.

Structural engineering sounds a good idea. Most engineers I know make a tidy packet, and it would be interesting work I'd imagine.

You'd be well into a six figure salary then, yeah?