@Samantha_Rae ”never. you can always learn more and enhance your life!!” I would agree, you should learn something new every day if you could. The Internet is a wide open class room should you want to learn new stuff. But if what you learn is suppose to make an impact on your life or spawn a new career I can see some things and some professions as unobtainable in a usable sense depending on how late you get started.
@ChazMaz ”Why can’t someone get educated for the pleasure of learning.” People do that all the time, they go back to fulfill unreached goals, personal interest, to keep from sitting around etc. If you have to think of something else to do because your job goes overseas, the economy causes the business to trim the fat and most of the fat they see is the work force not management; you have to find a way to reinvent yourself. Medicine takes many years of schooling; I would say at very least 6 years. If you went back to med school in your early 50s you would not even get out until you were near 60, and still not be a doctor just an intern. And if you had to do 4 years or more as an intern before you became a resident or an attending. If I were getting a gall bladder removed I don’t know I would be happy knowing tome fresh near green intern who was past retirement was holding the scalpel (if he/she will even seriously be allowed to work or given a license). Maybe real estate, home decorating etc you could do if you had to live off your new career otherwise it is an expensive hobby that is going to leave you with a boat load of debt to pay off.
cprevite ”Well known in his field. After retirement and a year “of boredom” he became our student and earned his degree in Graphic Design. All because he wanted to work on the website at his local library.” He wanted to go back to keep from being bored and graphic design is one of those areas where you can learn it in 2 to 4 years, way shorter then medicine, certain sciences, or even law maybe. If he had done so to compete in the work force how much of a chance would he really have to beat out some 30something guy with 7 years exp on him?