codefool's Journal: College Boy

I've made the decision that I'm going back to school for an entrepreneurship degree. Since I never graduated in the first place, this is prob. good for me. The bad is that I'm 43 and by the time I graduate I'll be 48.

The reason for all this is that I was laid off a couple of years back in the wake of the dot-bomb collapse. It took me a full 18 months to find another job, that pays much less than I was making 10 years prior. Its not that I'm unemployable - its just that there were no jobs. There still are no jobs. In fact, the IT market is continuing to tank. A labor report published a couple months back says that by 2010 we'll hava 250K fewer jobs than we have now - after the bust. That means that not only will most of the jobs lost during the bust not be coming back, but we'll lose an additional 250K besides. This means that the IT industry as a whole will not rebound for another 15 years. I can't wait that long to find a better job.

But, I have 22 years in this business - seems a shame to waste it. So rather than change careers alltogether, I'm going to change paradigm. I'm going to get a business degree, and use my IT knowledge to either start my own company or go run somebody else's.

exit ubergeek - enter CEO/CIO/CTO with ubergeek overtones.

And that's the plan.