Has anyone been in a similar situation as myself. What helped you turn it around?

[JCR1010]

I’m currently 43 years old, but I look like I’m in my mid 30s. Have a wife and 2 young kids that are not old enough to stay home yet.

I won’t bore you in the details, but I’ve made too many mistakes in my past. If I had taken my education seriously, I would have a master’s degree or PhD by now.

If I could go back in time, I would slap my younger self and tell him to get serious about high school and college.

Later today I will go to my warehouse job, working the graveyard shift. I tolerate it. I would rather be the I.T. person or programmer in a company. That’s one of my passions I have in life.

My resume just consists of entry-level retail jobs, warehouse, production and was a route driver for a dry cleaning company.

Wife and I share one car. I have to work the graveyard shift while she takes the car during the day and takes the kids to school and goes to her job.

Saving up for a second car at the moment.

I do not have any job connections. I really wish I did. Feel alone in this.

Just want to know if anyone here was in a similar predicament to my situation, and how did you turn it around?

Just want to improve the quality of life for my wife and kids. I want my kids to play happily in their own backyard. Right now, my family and I live in an apartment.

So if you have been in a similar situation as myself, and you turned your life around. How did you do it?

Thank you.

[vikramvi]

Feeling overwhelmed with options. Is FCC a good place to start to jumpstart my career? I'll explain

Hello everyone. Turning 43 years old in a few months. Luckily, I look like I’m in my 30’s. I work a warehouse job right now. I have made too many mistakes in my past and I want to change things for the better. I attended two for-profit schools in the past and found they were scam schools. Luckily, I could tell and did not graduate. Did 6 months of the schools. ITT Tech and Stevens Henager College. I have an amazing wife who works full-time and two amazing kids. I still need to work. Wife does…

Did you check my replies earlier ? You had posted same thing last year as well.

[chrisc34]

I am the same age and made the same mistakes when I was younger. I’m at the beginning of my journey to get into something else, currently looking at bootcamps and just joined up to this place.
I will be utilising here as well but I definitely need some sort of structured learning path as I know I would deviate if I go it alone like some people are able to do.
I’m mostly looking at part time online learning through bootcamps whilst I work a full time job, it’ll be tough but I’m very motivated to get started.

Anyway, hope you find what you’re looking for.