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After 20 years in the IT industry, I feel its time to move on. In the last year and half, both my personal and professional life have changed greatly. I have lost interest in the things that used to excite me, and am excited by things that previously did not interest me. Professionaly, I was big on coding, designing, implementing, testing, software applications. Personally, I would write programs for myself and spend too much time on the computer doing IT related research.

Now, I dislike both. It did not happen overnight, but rather over the last 16 months. Slowly but surely, I spent less and less time at the computer, and became increasingly disinterested in IT affairs. Seriously I am holding on to any semblance of motivation through sheer force of will.

Anyhow, I am looking at other fields such as politics, health care, and law. Any of these would be ground floow. The clincher to this is that I do not yet have my bachelor's, and I am about 12 months from completing it in Comp Sci.

What would you do? Just finish the degree and then change careers? Dump everything and start over ( though I'd still have student loan debt and nothing to show for it )? Or something completely different?

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by labrat636

You can try to do something else, but you will always end up fixing the computers and/or the computer network - mainly because if you find yourself in a law office - chances are there WILL be lawyers there that are better than you - but you may find yourself better than the guy they got doing IT now - you will naturally begin to "tweak things" on a "favor" bassis or just because you know YOU can make the network faster- and you are having trouble downloading a brief or whatever. Eventually the partners end up firing their inept IT guy and xfer you into his place.

You can take yourself out of the server room - but .....well you get the idea.

P.S. I would finish your comp sci degree if I were you - I don't like starting over myself -

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