u/Born-Design9050

Im 24F, I have been attending community college since August of last year. Originally, i wanted to get into a surgical technology program at my school. All of my grades are A's and 1 B, however i took my A&P1 final exam today and ended up making a D overall. The course was much harder than expected, and as someone who works 7p-7a 4 nights a week, I had little time to study or sleep. It was the hardest semester of my life. While I passed, you have to have at least a C to join the program, which sucks because my interview for the program was supposed to be next week.

Now im stuck. Most Healthcare programs seem to require A&P but I have very little desire to retake it. I am trying to have a career started within the next year. I wanted to stay in Healthcare as it seems like the earning potential is high, and with how prices are nowadays, income is a huge deal breaker for me. Im considering taking an LPN class, but the closest one to my house is an hour and a half away. Id be driving an hour to work, working ALL night, get off at 7AM and go straight to school for 8 hours, then only have 3 hours before my next shift, and with over an hour drive home, thats my entire day. I would not be home at all, I would get no sleep at all.

Is there any guidance anyone can give me? I live in east Tennessee so the job market is not great. Im trying my best to find a career that I can balance working full time and also go to school. I am fully accepted through the FAFSA so I pay nothing to go to school, but its so confusing figuring out how to keep going and working. Im at a loss and want to give up, but i currently only make $15 an hour and im sick of being in this endless cycle of being broke. I make enough to pay bills and thats about all. Any advice is VERY much appreciated.

I want to start by saying, I LOVE my cat, hes such a sweetheart and id do anything for him. I feel like alot of the posts here are starting to resent their cats, but this is not the case, im just a TIRED and fed up cat mom.

My cat is 6 months old, and for context, my boyfriend and I just moved into a house last week. Toast (my cat) has been living his best life, he seems to like it here. But my issue is when it comes to sleep. Every single morning at 4am on the dot, hes all over us, up in our faces and will not stop until we wake up. Hes been around me more, so he mostly bugs me, but he also does it to my boyfriend whose a cop, he has to wake up at 5am for 12 hour shifts, so I feel horrible that my cat is always waking him up.

Toast has the worst habit of trying to bite off my eyelashes, he will bite and pull out all of my earrings, he'll bite my nose ring (which HURTS when he misses and bites my nostril), I have to take off my nails and either keep them really short or have none at all cause he will bite them too, i cant even wear the promise ring my bf got me cause my cat will bite it and nip my fingers. Again, OUCH. I know this is normal cat behavior, im aware that they tend to get active in the early morning, but we both work full time, 12 hour shifts. We CANT keep doing this.

This morning I put my cat in the living room when he started doing this at 4am, but about 30 minutes later he was trying to claw his way under the door, scratching the carpet and meowing non stop. We rent from my boyfriends uncle who already barely let me bring my cat, so we cannot have him destroying carpet or furniture. Im at a loss at what to do. Im not looking for the "just ignore it until he stops" comments, I can't sit there and let him bite my face and fingers. Obviously when I try to get him to stop he thinks im trying to play when im really trying not to crash out. What sucks is that its so cute, i love that hes clingy, but it drives me insane when I need sleep. I do not play about my sleep.

To make matters worse, im incredibly sick right now and its brought my patience down to nothing. Hes climbing all over my pillows, getting in my face, putting his paws on my face, biting everything, playing with his loud bell toys and bringing them into the bed, im ready to rip my hair out. And it makes me mad that once im finally awake and mad, he seems content with himself and leaves us alone.