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What are you going to retrain as? A 50 year old programmer with no experience and 50,000 in school loans? I was a carpenter, I retrained at 28 and it was roug
by jethro_tell 10y ago
What are you going to retrain as? A 50 year old programmer with no experience and 50,000 in school loans?
I was a carpenter, I retrained at 28 and it was rough. I can't even imagine being older. Most of the guys I worked with out in the field didn't even own computers. They were just getting real phones. It's a brain rewiring not just picking up a couple new skills.
- antisthenes 10y agoI think most people underestimate the amount of time and effort involved in retraining. People are good with technology grew up with it their entire lives. There are exceptions, but if anything, they prove the rule.
- jethro_tell 10y agoI think people also underestimate the amount of lifestyle change that goes with that sort of thing. You're not going to go to school and retrain to be a programmer or some type of professional in a small town where there are 2 web devs and a little ISP two towns over. You're not going to move a family to a tech hub at that stage of your life so you can start over in an entry level job.