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09-01-2019, 02:34 PM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2019, 03:52 PM by justlearning123.)
I'm more lost now that I was when I first posted here 8 years ago.   I still need a degree to make myself more employable, and have no idea where to start.  I just paid off a large financial debt, but don't have a  lot of money, and expect to get laid off in about 9 months.  I also need a focus.  The last few years of my career have been doing "support" of legacy systems that nobody knows or cares about anymore, and I don't know as much as I'd like to about modern things.  I guess I will focus on web-development stuff since there appears to be a lot of freelance work, and most IT jobs seem to now expect you to know fundamental web technologies (HTML/JS/CSS).   I would like to both be able to work on my own side-projects, and be able to get a job.  Most of my 30+ year career, I've been shut-out of many jobs because they require a degree.  

Friends have suggested ("at your age") that I focus on HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/Laravel/WP until I am competent, and then I would have enough skills to survive either self-employed or employed.  I have always been interested in Cybersecurity and AI (going wayback), but think I missed the boat on those. I would need a lot of networking experience to do Cybersecurity, and a lot of math experience to do AI.

I had a bad experience at a "pay 6 months in advance" school, so I think I would want to do something in smaller steps. Maybe take some courses at StraighterLine or Sophia (just saw that one).  Maybe if I can get all the boring and math classes out of the way, I could go to Charter Oaks and get a Cybersecurity degree (if it is still offered) fairly cheap.

I find myself googling "most affordable regionally accredited online college Straighterline partner". I guess I want to get a degree in something that I can use to make products(s) to sell, and get a job with someone else. The end goal is to sell something myself (SaaS or mobile app), rather than be employed (as a freelancer or FT employee).  Time is running out. I know people that got cancer and died, who were 10 years younger than me.
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8 years later - by justlearning123 - 09-01-2019, 02:34 PM
RE: 8 years later - by allvia - 09-01-2019, 03:41 PM
RE: 8 years later - by justlearning123 - 09-01-2019, 04:13 PM
RE: 8 years later - by cecilgambe7 - 09-01-2019, 04:10 PM
RE: 8 years later - by justlearning123 - 09-01-2019, 05:24 PM
RE: 8 years later - by jamshid666 - 09-01-2019, 05:39 PM
RE: 8 years later - by cecilgambe7 - 09-01-2019, 06:08 PM
RE: 8 years later - by jamshid666 - 09-01-2019, 04:52 PM
RE: 8 years later - by justlearning123 - 09-01-2019, 06:47 PM
RE: 8 years later - by cecilgambe7 - 09-01-2019, 08:59 PM
RE: 8 years later - by justlearning123 - 09-01-2019, 09:15 PM
RE: 8 years later - by cecilgambe7 - 09-01-2019, 10:21 PM
RE: 8 years later - by jamshid666 - 09-01-2019, 11:22 PM
RE: 8 years later - by allvia - 09-02-2019, 08:44 AM
RE: 8 years later - by cookderosa - 09-02-2019, 11:30 AM
RE: 8 years later - by quigongene - 09-03-2019, 10:24 AM
RE: 8 years later - by dfrecore - 09-03-2019, 12:55 PM
RE: 8 years later - by justlearning123 - 09-05-2019, 06:01 PM
RE: 8 years later - by jamshid666 - 09-05-2019, 06:15 PM
RE: 8 years later - by justlearning123 - 09-05-2019, 06:21 PM
RE: 8 years later - by jamshid666 - 09-05-2019, 07:35 PM
RE: 8 years later - by justlearning123 - 09-05-2019, 09:21 PM
RE: 8 years later - by CSstudent0725 - 09-05-2019, 09:31 PM
RE: 8 years later - by jamshid666 - 09-05-2019, 11:23 PM
RE: 8 years later - by jsd - 09-05-2019, 06:40 PM
RE: 8 years later - by davewill - 09-05-2019, 07:22 PM
RE: 8 years later - by justlearning123 - 09-05-2019, 09:34 PM
RE: 8 years later - by davewill - 09-05-2019, 09:45 PM
RE: 8 years later - by CSstudent0725 - 09-05-2019, 09:54 PM
RE: 8 years later - by CSstudent0725 - 09-05-2019, 09:16 PM
RE: 8 years later - by cookderosa - 09-09-2019, 08:29 AM
RE: 8 years later - by tesu-acct-student - 09-09-2019, 04:57 PM
RE: 8 years later - by bjcheung77 - 09-09-2019, 03:59 PM

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