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Meg, I face a similar problem, so I know where you're coming from. I doubt that any of the courses I've taken would be accepted for credit at, say, a local community college, so I'd be looking at starting from scratch just to get a B.A. or B.S. Obviously that limits my employability; it also limits the avenues I can even pursue to expand my employability.
I think it's interesting that in OT Israel there was provision made for people without ambition. When a servant decided he liked working for his master, he could become a servant for life. Basically, he's going to go through life with his expenses paid and with something to do to keep busy, but not a lot else. But there is no moral stigma attached to someone who took that alternative. But what a gap is there between that and the American Dream? There are people unsuited to the American Dream, and I think it's high time we stopped introducing some sort of societal or even ecclesiastical frowning on that as though it were somehow second best.
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