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I am Tazinator, Christopher 47 male father of 4 great kids

Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on October 21, 2008 at 4:14pm: I am Greg De Santis, 40 single, no kids. Primary care giver of last surviving older family member.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rex Torres on October 21, 2008 at 8:44pm: Hi I'm Rex Torres, 44, male, single, no kids. My mother lives in my house with me.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by caseyfern on October 22, 2008 at 2:36am: Casey van Bronkhorst, 57, married, stepkids, step-grandkids, Mac-aholic. Twitter addict, Webstore person, etc etc etc; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bill Cull on October 22, 2008 at 6:07am: I'm Bill Cull (the Lan_Man), 47, male, writer/creator/programmer of: ZCPR3's auto-relocating self-installer module (anybody remember CP/M?) as well as the coder/programmer behind the following products:
"BerkleyColortran's "ColorTrak-II/Composer" and "VeriLight's VdComposer" (theatrical) Lighting design computers that were mass-marketed throughout the USA and the United Kingdom (aka Europe).

The (above) products (based on the Zilog Z-80 CPU) were a big 'hit' back in the day when DISCO was KING!

As far as the 'senior' designation, ya really know how to make a guy feel OLD! ;-) but I'd (rather) hold-off the "senior-moment" definition/designation until I'm (at least) 60 (or more) years old!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by bubba version 40.0 on October 22, 2008 at 7:15am: I am Gary Haines, 40 married, one son (age8). Working in a dead end job until I can finish college and get a real job. I will not give up the fight.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bill Cull on October 22, 2008 at 8:12am: Galaxy Quest’s —-> “Never Surrender, Never Give Up” should be Garry's ‘motto’ ;-); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marc Solomon on October 22, 2008 at 11:41am: I'm Marc Solomon, 49 married, one daughter (15). Graduated college in December of 2007 with a BS. I worked for over 30 years in an industry where everyone except me had a degree (Software Development). While I never considered any of my jobs 'dead end', the job I had until a few months before graduation no longer offered any chance of promotion without the degree. That company, which had paid for most of my degree, has since rehired me, I believe, partially because I finished the degree program.

Gary, I know it is difficult to juggle a job, a family, and college at the same time, especially at your age. I was embarrassed during my last job search telling people I just earned my degree last year, but in retrospect, I received much respect for being able to accomplish that goal at 48. Furthermore, the fact that I had graduated so recently meant that I was bringing in a much more modern set of skills than if I had graduated back in the 80s. (Truth be told, my skills come from 30 years of industry knowledge, not what I learned in college, but why correct those that believed otherwise?).

One last benefit on finishing what you started, is being able to tell your kid 10 years from now exactly what the degree is worth.

Best of Luck to you Gary!
- Marc; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marc Solomon on October 22, 2008 at 11:41am: Yikes!!! somehow my reply got duplicated --- so let's delete this one.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Katherine W. Prawl on December 21, 2008 at 10:55am: Good for you, Gary! I was 38 when I finally got my B.A. (Linguistics), 20 years after starting it. I'm glad I finally did it after dropping out so many times I lost track in the first couple of years. Older students seem to get more out of studies that the young kids fresh out of high school, and people respect your perseverance going back to finish it up later in life.; ▶ Reply to This