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Mature Students Unite! Is school an option for me?
I'm a totally awesome computer fix-it type who has been awesome at my work for about 11 years.
The problem is that the field is flooded and while it's certainly got jobs, there's an industry-wide push to make it abhorrent. For example, I worked for a place who thought I didn't process jobs quickly enough because I preferred to be more thorough with customer backups. IT departments and turning to outsourced workers in order to shrink their budgets. In short, with all these shrinking prospects, it's been terribly demoralizing for me.
On the other hand, I've been improvising characters in Internet games and radio shows, as well as writing a lot of stuff. I volunteer as a puppeteer, and when I slip into a character (it's hard to believe, but) I think like that character. I also did some pirate radio a while back, and it was a lot of fun!
So here I am, at 29, contemplating whether to take a drama course or to make it a 4 year program in broadcasting and theatre. I know enough to temper my expectations; I don't expect that I'll be the hero in some Saturday morning cartoon, but even if I wind up writing in a cubical, I BELIEVE IN MAHSELF!
The question I have to the rest of y'all is: Does it make sense to leap into college or university in order to change the track I'm on? What options exist for someone winding down a soul-crushing IT career in exchange for a (greener) dramatic arts career?
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If you can work via the internet then you should do so. Keep your P.C. server at home and protect sensitive data. Get something like that setup and do it as a Hoby or Charity. i.e. as a not for profit setup. If you can setup such a server then we can talk. and maybe we can contact some charity to provide assistance and/or to look for Government support.
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Dude (or female version of dude), you're 29, that means you still have a long God damn life ahead of you. If finding a career that makes you happy makes sense to you, then I think you didn't even need to ask the question to begin with. It's going to be a risk, and may not even work out, but at least you have something you're good at and still like.
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