Ian's Career Plans

I talked to Ian yesterday, again, about what he wants to do next year. Does he want to be home schooled? Does he want to be half-home schooled and half at the public school? Does he want to be all at the public school? His response to all this is NO.

"What do you mean NO?"
"I don't want to go to school. I want to concentrate on my professional career as a skateboarder."

Now I've had plenty of experience working with high schoolers and if he wasn't my kid I'd go through all the facts about dropping out of school and the low numbers of people who end up being professional athletes, blah, blah, blah.

But with Ian I said, in a calm, sarcastic voice, "So you want to be stupid all your life." (Not a question, just a fact.z0

"You know how much money a professional skateboarder can make and all the skateboards and clothes they get...free?"

"So, you want to be stupid all your life?"

"Oh mom, you just don't get it," and with that he went downstairs to watch a skateboarding video with all the rich, professional skateboarders in it, although it's obvious they still aren't rich enough to buy a belt.

So I'm going to have to make a decision for him - he's going to public school because if he doesn't I will be forced to kill him.

On the "house for sale" note, no, the house still hasn't sold but I'm packing as if it has. I have a pile of garage sale items, mainly Mike's stuff, that will hopefully pay for our move to Oregon. I've been looking at rentals in case Ian and I have to rent before Mike sells the house. And no, I haven't found a job. I did try to get ahold of the Human Resource person at OSU but her number was disconnected. I thought this was a sign, a bad sign, until I realized I had written her number down wrong. Maybe that's a sign.

Here's my ideal situation - part -time at some library, one or two classes at OSU and then I start my tutoring business where within five years I'm in the six-digit income and I sell my business for a million and spend the rest of my life canning peaches and riding my horse. After all, I won't need much money since Ian will be making mega-bucks as a professional skate boarder.