37 and gone back to school, it's official... Humanity is losing intelligence.

I did the same thing and wanted to blow my brains out.

Good move OP....

I just passed a Comptia exam through self study and am working on another one. I'm semi retired but look young for my age. If I can take a job away from someone who voted for the current clown, that will be icing on the cake.

Why are you moving on from Web Development OP? No work?

I'll bet there are a ton of people in that field

you're 3 years away from 40 and in college. Who's the moron again?

if you have half a brain you'll get cross trained in something other than what your doing right now. exceptions would be medical, engineering and maybe a few other fields.

SAT scores have dropped 20 points in last 20 years... go figure.

Good luck, OP. I know the Robotic/Mechanical Automation fields are taking off like rockets these days. You should be able to find work easily enough once you've completed your desired courses. You should also be able to easily top those idiots struggling with very basic math stuff too.

Sounds like you're overqualified. Good luck finding a job.

Not true with engineering. I had to go from being a top flight machine design engineer in my mid 30’s to a aerospace design engineer figuring out if one thousand "rivets" are too close or too far apart, if the edge of the parts put together with said "rivets" are to close or too far from said "rivets" and if a mechanic can install said "rivets". On rare occasions I fundamentally change the way the parts are configured. All that is the interesting part. Then there is all the dreary computer input that makes this stuff get put on engineering "drawings" or the computer equivalent of said drawings.

Now they are bringing over 3 dollar an hour Indians working for Indian companies to do the dreary stuff. Then someone like me has to fix all there fuckups with 90 precent if the time and budget gone.

Northing is safe. This civilization needs a whole rethink. The money printing fuckers are parasites and sucking up too many resources. They make life for us unbearable for us. You would think those assholes would have enough sense to keep us happy. Nope like any psychopath they have to play it close to the thrilling edge of destruction.

My "corporate" job, as I suspected, was outsourced. After 20 yrs of working for others I decided to go out on my own though my heart is just not into keeping up with the field in general anymore. As with most product/services, there's a level of educating consumers that's a challenge. Most small businesses go the easy website builder route and don't want to hear about the limitations they will face and pay more for a professional to do a site for them. Can't really fiscally compete with either of those contingencies, but the bottom line was I wanted to be happy again. So I got rid of all debt aside from house, all non essential payments like new cars, cable, etc... And strung together a couple pt flexible gigs, go to school full time as of this semester (in what is becoming known as mechatronics) and do some web dev and Aquaponics system building on the side as it comes up. It's been 3 yrs of now, haven't increased my debt and feel like I haven't worked a day since leaving the corp world. My chosen field is more of a fall back and I'm going to enjoy it, but secretly hope not to have to work for any beast again. But without a doubt, as more and more people lose their jobs to automation, I'll still have a chance at one.

Perhaps... You did notice my handle, yes? At least I'm self aware... And I'm happy and feel free again. You?

It's forced me to rid myself of bloat and adjust and prepare for a different world. One where self sustainability and ingenuity will set you apart. And I don't have to dread doing the same damn thing all my life. I'm always looking to be more well rounded and diversified.

This is like my eighth career.

Lumberjack, house painter, vending machine entrepreneur, Army officer, hospital administrator, economist, aerospace engineer, and now....metal coatings engineer with my own manufacturing company.

Oh yeah, I started mowing lawns for money when I was so young the mower handle was higher than my head which made it really difficult to push! I spent every penny on science fiction books to read.

Right now I am working on training the young people to take over my company teaching them chemistry and materials science. At the same time, we are working on some new coatings that can withstand a 10,000 hour salt spray corrosion test.

Almost forgot, I am a part time farmer as well.

As St. Heinlein once said, "Specialization is for insects".

I barely remember my 37th year.

Jedi master

Mechatronics is engineering. Best explained as the marriage of electrical/mechanical with some industrial automation. This is my chosen field for cross training.

ha ha u win

Yes, that's really fucked. Sometimes some of them hire a programmer and ask him to use Wix, Weebly or such a shit, damn I'm a programmer, I want to do coding. Also the people from third world countries who charge ridiculous amount for the work are another trouble. I'm also a web developer.

St. Heinlein

I can grok that!

Haven't read any Heinlein. Lots of PKD though. Which books are must reads or just plain excellent reads. Please don't say all just the GOOD ones.

Stranger in a Strange Land is by far his best IMO. The smilie I posted is the original book cover art.

I am re-reading Heinlein's work now. Just finished Starship Troopers.

But, as I am reading Time Enough for Love, I begin to think THAT is his greatest work.

Like some others, RAH performed thought experiments about how societies might change and operate. Interesting that he could not imagine the world that we live in so few years hence.

But, there is nothing else like the Wisdom of Lazarus Long. E.g., "One man's magic is another man's engineering. Supernatural is a null word."

You are the moron. Learning should be a lifetime thing.

OK U2 getaroom