Share your happy stories - finishing your degree

[AutumnOcean]

Hi all.
I would love to hear some humble brags and happy stories about how you felt finishing your studies, how you celebrated, what doors your degree opened up for you... anything! Hopefully this will inspire others.

I've been interested in political science and history since I was a child. I decided to commence a Counter Terrorism and Political Science degree back in 2016 when I was about 27, and I'm due to finish in approximately 4 weeks. I'll be just shy of 34 when I finish. It's taken me 8 years due to having a chronic illness, juggling work, the pandemic, raising 2 children, but I'm finally at the finish line and I couldn't feel any prouder. I can't wait to have a big glass of wine after my final submission. I'm also currently in talks with someone about a graduate job (but I also love my current job too). I've also been invited to do a Masters.

If you're thinking about studying give it a go! It was certainly challenging, but feels absolutely incredible to be finishing after working so hard.

Would love to hear your stories, and congratulations to everyone in the same situation.

I'd always loved history and missed out on uni at 18 because of a bad choice of subject and uni back then.

At 37 I did an Access course and got myself onto a History degree at our local uni. Surprisingly, to me anyway, it turned out I was pretty good at it and graduated at 41 with the top percentage in my cohort and won the History student of the year prize.

Before going to uni I had a crappy part time job, earning the square root of nothing. Now I work in marketing no idea how I fell into that and am the main wage earner.

Congratulations OP, getting a degree while juggling children, illness and adulting is a real achievement. You should be really proud.