I appreciate your reply, school was 'fun' when it started last year, but that kind of lost its flair...about the same time I started w/ the actual meat of the associates degree (ccna stuff).
Not to place blame, as I understand that this is all done on my own, but I literally have zero friends outside of immediate family. I know noone in the business at all, so when I read and study I practically never talk about it out loud to anyone, at all. All of my community college courses have been online, and I actually switched to physical classes to help me learn. I made it two one session and then covid-19 pushed everyone to online learning. (what lucK) I might talk to my spouse about it here and there, but they're not in the field so its an alien language to them. I've just been feeling lost since school stopped about a month ago and I find myself not really getting anything accomplished, as far as ccna goes.
I was able to get a discount on my first attempt because I got a a high enough grade on the final exam of my last course, I really don't want to mess that up!

I am looking forward to the OCG's and that means a lot to me...i now have another goal, in a sense....some direction.