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Originally Posted by Undertoad

I taught myself web design, is what I did... founded a small company to do microsites for small businesses.

Turned out there is not much call for it round here. I know you don't believe me. Ask bluecuracao. And when they hire 'em, they hire fresh-outs, not 49-year-old fat guys. Because they can pay the kids nothing and ride their ass to work a shit ton of overtime.

So I picked the wrong thing to learn. Or maybe I did what I wanted, and the money didn't follow because the economy.

Also I forgot, again, that people do not hire generalists to work in IT. IT is always specialists. I thought, surely I will be invaluable to someone, as a guy who can do a little of everything: web design, web programming, system administration. But IT prefers to hire three different specialists for each of those things.

But I guess I overstated my problem because I don't think of it as a problem. IT managers, around here, routinely suck, and tend to make your life a living hell. The only way I escaped that was to try building my own businesses. I imagine that I will be much happier, at this stage of life, working as a pharmacy assistant or behind the counter at a vet hospital. We will see what happens.

I do know that I was unable to learn anything while working full time, having two hours of commute each day, and J on weekends.

I've heard that during depressions and recession the two industries that actually increase are Alcohol and entertainment. Apparently people like to forget their troubles. Entertainment is all whack now with the internet, not like in the old days when you could spend all day at the movies. Now you spend all day in front of a computer or TV. But as of yet, there is no beer app.

Hence my current career path.