Congratulations to you and everyone else that made the decision to go back to school after being out for so long. As a college prof, teaching mostly in the evenings, the more "mature" student is the rule, not the exception. Many, like yourself are returning to school in an effort to launch a second career, or to hone skills which may lead to advancement in their current careers. The days of graduating from school and landing a job that you will retire from are pretty much over. There are no guarantees, and really there never really were to begin with. More true today than 10 or 20 years ago, is that education is a life long experience, and we need to get use to that idea if we're to compete in a global economy, let alone survive as individuals in the workforce. Fortunately, education can take on many forms, from junior and senior colleges that offer continuing education, to industry seminars that offer more focused instruction, to online learning on just about any subject imaginable. Education is more accessible now than it has ever been, and there's really no excuse for anyone not to find a convenient way to broaden their horizons. Hats off to all that have come to the realization that education at "our age" is more important now than when we were 18. As someone alluded to in a previous post, the task may look daunting, but 5 years down the road, its still going to look daunting. Projecting into the future, one would simply be 5 years older, or 5 years older with a degree. In other words, theres 'nothing to but to do it'. When it come to education, the worse decision one can make is to not make a decision.
Ok...I've now run out of cliches' and I'm stepping down from the soapbox. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
...Tony
