Take a year or two off from your education. Get a position - any position - even if its "flippin' burgers" or being a management-trainee at a fast food restaurant. It's going to be a temporary position. BUT YOU DO NOT tell the folks hiring you about what your intentions are. You can tell them you want to go back to school for your Bachelor's and possibly your Master's degree. There MAY BE tuition reimbursement or a partial scholarship offered by that company for your education. Employers usually LOVE IT when their employees do volunteer work for a worthy charity! Find a worthy charity and on a regular, dependable basis - just as though it was a second job - do volunteer work for that charity. Wherever and whatever it is, within a reasonable travelling time and distance from your home or work, ask about, JOIN, PARTICIPATE AND BE ACTIVE! "The powers that be" and many caring, loving people - the folks you may be hoping to meet and "rub elbows with" and get to know, are those ladies and gentlemen doing volunteer work at hospitals, nursing homes, worthy charities and causes. When you do volunteer work on a consistent, dependable basis, your ability increases, your horizons expand and meeting that "special someone" AND possibly "climb, up the social ladder" could be greatly shortened and you could be recognized A WHOLE LOT SOONER. After about a year or so, look into, ASK ABOUT AND APPLY FOR scholarships, low-interest loans, fellowships and/or grants associated with that charity or the industry that particular charity is part of. Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed answering it! VTY, Ron Berue Yes, that is my real last name! Sources: On a regular, dependable basis, I volunteer at Magee Rehabilitation Hospital 1513 Race Street Philadelphia, PA. "THE University of Hard Knocks" Also known as ("a/k/a") "life's valuable lessons".