Going back to college in your early 40s...sounds like a terrible idea...but Im considering it.

[StuckInTheEast]

Fair enough and easy enough for me to say knowing absolutely nothing.

But…..there’s always only fans?

Not sure that works quite as well for guys...but if I had anything anyone wanted to pay to see I'd show for a paycheck in a heartbeat

 

[MarkOrtiz]

I went back to school at 36 and just graduated from SNHU at 41 this spring with an Environmental Science degree. It was mostly paid for by my employer which was the only reason I really could do it, plus SNHU was pretty easy and all after work in the evenings online. Now looking at other jobs that I might like better and everything is about 50% of what I make now. We are set up pretty well and packing away money into 401ks, HRA, and investments with a plan to retire/semi-retire about 55. I think I will just stay here at this employer and take more vacations and just learn to live with it at this time. I'll keep the degree for a what if or need to move scenario. Maybe just a lateral shift for you might be what you need. Close to equal pay and close to the same job, but for a different employer, or just different enough that it makes your day to day life a little better. Hope you find a solution or something that works for you.

 

[Amos Keeto]

I went back to school at 36 and just graduated from SNHU at 41 this spring with an Environmental Science degree. It was mostly paid for by my employer which was the only reason I really could do it, plus SNHU was pretty easy and all after work in the evenings online. Now looking at other jobs that I might like better and everything is about 50% of what I make now. We are set up pretty well and packing away money into 401ks, HRA, and investments with a plan to retire/semi-retire about 55. I think I will just stay here at this employer and take more vacations and just learn to live with it at this time. I'll keep the degree for a what if or need to move scenario. Maybe just a lateral shift for you might be what you need. Close to equal pay and close to the same job, but for a different employer, or just different enough that it makes your day to day life a little better. Hope you find a solution or something that works for you.

Put yourself out there as a "consultant". Guy i worked with was the first person in our department to work with an ozone (O3) generator in one of our plants.
Until he retired and after he retired, he made some good money as other plants in the area installed ozone systems.