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Descon

Starting again at 25?

I know that there will be a lot of people that will tell me 25 is young, but if I can tell my story, I'd appreciate any and all advice.

I came out of high school good at drafting, I went to a technical school and pissed away the years, failing courses and years - eventually taking 4 years to be one course short of the diploma i lied to my family and told them i have.

during school, i got a job with an architectural firm and they paid me well. open bar at work every friday and projects were coming in faster than we could handle. head hunters were calling me at work even though i wasn't done school or even employed full time, and i foolishly thought that that pace of development would last.

2008 - the company exploded into 4 smaller companies, laying off more than half the staff in the process, i left to work with the son of one of the partners of the firm in a new service company. we did alright, mainly supplied with work by the fragments of companies left over. now work is starting to dry up. the building boom is done in this town and i am left with years of experience as a freelancer in an industry that has little to do with the 99% of a diploma i have.

long story short, i want to go back to school and get a degree in computer science. are there any other folks who have been in my situation and it worked out for them? if it didnt work out, id like to hear what you'd have done differently thanks

Posted May 17, 2012, 11:06 PM UTC · edited

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[deleted]•

Starting what again? Your original pokemon game? Sure. Go for it. No one cares about your Lvl. 88 Dugtrio anymore. Delete that shit and start over.

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DesconOP•

hahah - i wouldn't let my pikachu evolve - lvl 90 pikachu and no real benefit over a lvl 90 riachu as far as i could tell.

let me edit this with one of the funnier letdowns of my life - i saved and bought pokemon red for the OG (original gameboy) and was so excited and enthralled with the game that i played it right through buffy the vampire slayer, i was so upset that i missed the show, but conflicted because pokemon was so awesome

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[deleted]•

no real benefit over

Your pokemon did not want to evolve. It shows you love your pokemon.

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mildlystrokingdino•

No?

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Pawsword•

You shouldn't reply to peoples questions with other questions?

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mildlystrokingdino•

You can't expect much from a dinosaur that's had a mild stroke?

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iwantapickle•

You mean you're not a dinosaur who's mildly stroking himself?

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mildlystrokingdino•

No no, I wouldn't like to make T-rexs feel any more inferior at their inability to stroke themselves.

Edit: too many 'any's and 'to's. Maybe I should go to bed

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martinmcfly9•

Why not?

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Pawsword•

Because it's irritating?

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martinmcfly9•

Oh, ok. ... Damnit!

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jamaicanbeercan•

I don't know about starting again completely, but moving forward in new directions is always possible.

One good piece of advice I have picked off Reddit was to have a goal in mind and complete small steps toward it. It is quite difficult to change everything all at once. So pick one thing at a time that you'd like to change or do and focus in incremental steps.

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FaatVass19•

25 is the new 15..or that's what my dad always says...

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DanielKalen•

I agree with your original comment: you are far too young to worry.

You can get your computer science diploma (or mostly any other, including the one you left 1 year short of) while there's not all that much to do at work.

Sit down calmly. Take your time to plan. See which grants you can apply for.

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doctechnical•

Impossible. You're past your prime, old man.

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