I can’t go back to school!
It’s too late!
I’m too old!
Mmmm-hmmm.
Well, consider the following, and do the math:
Take 65 and subtract your current age.
What number did you get? What does it mean?
Well, assuming you can retire at age 65, the number you just came up with is the number of years left in your working life.
That’s the number of years you will spend in your current line of work… avoiding your true calling… unless you decide to go for it and return to school!
Think about it. If you’re 35 right now, you’ve got at least 30 more years of working before you can retire. In fact, if you started working at age 16, you’ve got more years of work ahead of you than you’ve already put in.
From that perspective, four years of school is not a lot of time… and it’s not too late.
Learning is never too late, Christine.
You’re absolutely right.
I started college Fall 05/06 and I am now in love with education. I am so amazed at the doors opening for me already. I was not aware that these doors even existed. Education has turned on the lights in my dark boxed in life. I will be 46 in October. There are students attending my school who are much older than me. It is never to late!
Good for you, Eleanor! I love hearing these stories!
I decided to go to college at the last minute this summer. My son was accepted to dual enrollment at the local college, meaning he would finish high school and get college (for free). The catch I would be his transportation. I thought, since I’m driving there I might as well do what I have dreamed. My final decision came when my 19 year old daughter told me I couldn’t go to college because I was too old my my high school would have to go to a crypt in the basement, dust off and translate my transcript from hieroglyphics in order to send it. Something about being told what I couldn’t do set me off. I applied an hour later.