Do you feel like its to late to start a new Career

Never is to late

I am a HR dude and deal with people's carer path a lot. While its never to late to do what ever you want. There are many consideration one should take a good look at before making a decision to change and the older you are the more caution you want to be.

Never Say die

Heck no... I have had several careers and going for another.

I was a blue collar die maker for 13 years... then I took a two year sabbatical to figure out something better than blue collar work... and I ran across a job as a contract telephone engineer...

When the industry died in 2002, I survived a whole year on unemployment, and decided to go back to college. I figured out I was actually very good at college... then I had people telling me I was good at it, like honor societies and folks that hand out scholarships...

Now I am on my way to earn a Master's degree in January... then a PhD after that... the next career? I want to be a full-time college professor. After 6 years you receive tenure at the university you work at and have job security for life.

My advice would be to quit the job you hate, and figure out what you love in life... then do that...

There is no time in one lifetime to waste your time doing something you hate doing. I wasted 13 years in the die making business and I hated life... now, I am a full-time college student, I give guitar lessons for what money I do make, and I couldn't be happier.

Its not always about STUFF... (big screen TVs, huge houses, and having a bigger SUV than your neighbor who lives 3 feet from your exterior wall...)

Its all about peace and enjoying this life that passes by so fast we will be in the grave before we make up our minds to enjoy it rather than b*tch and complain about every little thing...

I was married for five years to a complete psychopath... and I decided when I got away from that b*tch that I was going to live in peace and tranquility the rest of my life,,, I wasn't going to put up with the crazy chaos and domestic bullsh*t she had in her life when we met... she had problems, and I got the hell away from her... thank God... talk about being delivered... whew... thank you Jesus !!!!!

Yup, you can start over as many times as you wish... with a career... I'm holding out until I find a decent woman who actually has her stuff together... but I'm not holding my breath... on here, if you find somebody interesting they write you one e-mail then drop off the planet...

But as far as careers?... go for it

I too made a career change after re-inventing myself at 40 and educating myself to do something that at the time I believed I was called to do, loved it however....It took too much out of me and I ended up working and not living.

I now have changed careers again this time blending two past working experiences into one. I am very excited about the possibilities.

And you sir, don't quit just before the miracle happens. I enjoy the art of letter writing and am pretty good at it...so maybe, if your curious let's see who drops off the planet and if not just remember this is a sorting process. Maybe they saved you alot of potentially wasted time. signed sleepless in Phoenix (Julia)

Barely hanging onto the "40 something" part of this forum catagory and STILL not sure what I want to be when I grow up. Lots of changes going on in my life and really...I could be doing something completely different before long & okay with that. Just keeping my hands and feet inside the car until the train comes to a complete stop at this point...
Life is good :)