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Old 01-05-2017, 05:06 PM   #68
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
So you are saying if the choice was starve or go into a lower level field, you would starve.
Of course not.

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No, you could not go into a field that required a totally different education, but I am assuming you could work retail or some other non-technical field.
The only sort of jobs I could take when not working as a software engineer would be network engineer or server admin (if I'm lucky and people actually believe a can do that, as I don't have any formal education in those fields, but know my fair share about them), or else, work in a job that requires no education.

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Let me tell something young man. My husband worked in the oilfield until the bottom fell out. He didn't have a degree of any kind. He lost everything, cars, house etc.
While I didn't lose *that* much, I've had to restart once already, a few years ago. Lost all the savings I had for first downpayment on an apartment, and ended up in a job that paid only 60% of what I earned previously. While my job and salary have improved, I'm still not back to where I was back then, not in salary, and not in savings.

I don't care to do it again, if I can help it.
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