Can relate to the article. Since 2003 or so I have been homeschooling my kids, very intentionally developing my spiritual path, taking on occasional web dev and

Can relate to the article. Since 2003 or so I have been homeschooling my kids, very intentionally developing my spiritual path, taking on occasional web dev and database projects, and being the stay at home dad. Up to that point, I had been in healthcare analytics doing everything from custom ETL, database design, to ad-hoc reports. Writing code and solving problems related to data was one of my favorite things. Well the kids grew up and my engineering brain stayed active. Except, between age and the various non-traditional choices I had made in life my self-confidence was shot regarding employment. Six weeks ago I accepted an offer for a data and business analyst position in healthcare at age 52. The pay is modest, the people are great, and I feel in many ways like I am starting all over. It is easy to regret lost time and opportunity. I sure have at times. Really I traded one opportunity set for another. Now I see I am well suited for a new kind of role which uses my technical and non-technical strengths. In fact I was told being able to bridge technical and non-technical areas of the organization was a primary reason to offer me the position. I still get to write small bits of software to automate processes my new employer didn't realize could be automated. My favorite type of software to write. Ironically, I have more fields in and out of tech I want to explore than I did 20 years ago. Yet, my life is over halfway to the finish line!