Quote: The only way to get anywhere as I am would be to find a way into a technical school, which would either require me to take on decades worth of debt, or find a patron who would put me through the school... in return for, at going rates, a few decades of contractually mandatory employment. Yeah, like that's ever going to work out.
America is not the usual when it comes to college fees - by far. Though there's always a Tour of Duty in the military as enlisted as another option - get them to pay for your training. Especially since you're unlikely to see frontline combat, or have to spend decades since you're not going career.
Quote:As soon as I realized that, I decided I was going to have to do something that goes against my grain... take a risk. The plan I have in mind could kill me. It could cripple me for the rest of my life, in any number of ways. I could lose everything I hold dear, or even screw over this universe.
Paging Doctor Scaglietti?
Or going Book of Darkness -hunting, depending on the era. If I put my Spacebattles hat on for a moment - getting hold of the book might be your best option for power. You already know how to do it right anyway. Tome of the Night Sky solves anything.
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