Luc said:
Late 30's really isn't too old. Seriously if you are give up on yourself
because you are around 40 that is sad.
Make me feel much better. I am 41, an immigrant from one of the most
oppressed ethnic group in the most oppressed SE Asian country in the
world.
And what you are asking really is a personal decision.
Yeah but I don't want to be putting effort in in the wrong direction
especially since I have other choices which are suitable to my taste
and skills.
Some people have adventures in their lives, some people lie around, other
people map out their lives to a T.
What is a T? BTW, some people happend to be at the right place, at the
right time but I never was .. so far. Now, I feel that I am at the
right place at the reight time but may not be at the right age. I have
not done professional work for 8 years - except tutoring and then
teaching briefly like 6 months about 2 years ago. I didn't teach
programming btw.
I had plenty of adventure, and it was not by choice. I already changed
a career once (not by choice), actually more like quit since I haven't
been established in a new one.
I had neven been able to establish financially, and never even had some
sort of financial stability and I need to get to that byt ene of my
40s. But for not, I just want to use the last/latest education I
obtained.
I don't want to settle for something just to make a living. At the same
time, I don't want make a wrong turn and lose even like 6 mons sepnding
time for a job position that wouldn't come to me *purely* because of my
age. Instead, I can look for a slightly different position, for
example, someone suggested me to try project administer or project
coordinator type position in the industry I want to work in, namely
pharmaceutical because of my bilogical and natural science background.
(Note: Not project manager or business analyst position.) She is in
construction management, a totally different environment wqhere she saw
people coming with those job titles and so I am not even sure about the
job titles she mentioned in pharamceutical industry.
If you are asking where the money is, or rehirability we might be able to
help you better. (No guarantees) Plus - what country are you residing in
now?
Not about money. Not rehirability.
I live in USA and recently became a permanent resident. If age is not
an issue, I want to put use of my education *for sometime* as a
programmer, i.e contract work or not. Then I'll go from there and
see how I can establish myself in that industry.
If age is not an issue to start as a programmer, I want to spend the
next 2 months intensively reviewing the Core Java I learned at school +
JDBC stuff + Servlets and JSP. Then start looking for a job, even if
through agency and agreeing to contracts.Then I'll go from there and
see how I can establish myself in that industry.
Many things affect your hiring elidgibility than just the topics covered in
school.
I am planning to fix that but if age is an issue, I don't want to
invest any more time on pursuing programmer position and rather do
something slightly different which would still allow me programming
software engineering knowledge.
I know that companies are willing to take those in mid 25 with no
expericnce who just got out of college with a computer science degree
but I wonder would they be interseted in me who has some experience in
another industry and another education with knowledge (resrach
experience) that is useful in pharmaceutical industry?