"Red Rider" wrote in message
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I never really worked directly in the engineering field, the BS was to
keep
my dad happy and off my back, but my main goal was to get into NAVCAD.
The
advance engineering degree's I got later were just something to do while I
spent a few years in the Durham NC VA hospital which is next to Duke. Heck
I
have met more people that work in something other than what they got their
degree in than those that do.

Probably a third to a half of the programmers I know actually got their
degrees in something other than CS. In some cases, things like English or
history. They frequently turn out to be better software developers than the
formally trained people. I know a nurse who abruptly changed careers in her
late '30's, and is now an ocean kayaking and rockclimbing guide. Not to
mention quite a few more who have made similar radical shifts.

Hell, at the age of thirty you still have all the options open to you. I
wouldn't enlist in the Navy, but if you're having problems establishing an
enjoyable career at that age you're doing something wrong.

AHS