I don't see how your question is related to being in your thirties. I am in my thirties and I just started grad school. Regardless, you can get government student loans and possible even grants depending on your state and exact situation. There are also scholarships available. I personally would not go to a community college because they are dependent on students remaining enrolled and therefore are too easy in their curriculum and their grading.
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I went to college off and on over 15 years for a total of maybe 2 years (and the first one was just partying and fucking up as an 18 year old.) I'm in IT as a Linux SysAdmin and fucking love every inch of it. I took zero tech classes in college (mainly because the www was only 3 or 4 years old when I was in college.) I got into Linux because I was interested in at and was always learning how to do things with it for fun. After leaving a shitty sales job, I went on interviews and finally found a cool, young company and talked to the CEO. He saw my passion and that I had 15 years of Linux experience but zero work history. I agreed to come on as an intern with zero pay so he could throw projects at me to see how I did with them. He told me that he really only expected me there a day or two a week because he wasn't paying me. I was always the first one there and the last to leave, 5 days a week. After a month, he gave me a key so I wouldn't have to wait for someone to show up and unlock the doors. After that, I made sure that coffee was made and fresh when the first person got there, the trash was taken out, and everything that he gave me was done early. This was me being an unpaid intern in my mid30s to be able to do what I love. Fast forward a few years and I am the Senior SysAdmin for the entire company. I report to the CEO and CTO directly with no other supervision.
I did the same thing at 18. I wanted to learn how to build guitars so I put in an application at the Gibson Custom Shop and then called them every Tuesday and Friday for 5 months until they hired me. Once I got hired doing menial hand sanding work, I spent lunch breaks and all my extra time learning, off the clock, from the people that had been doing it for decades until I got good at all aspects of building guitars.
Step 1: Figure out what you want to do, not what you want to make. Step 2: Learn everything you can about it. Step 3: Be relentless in finding a job with people that do that thing, even if you work as a volunteer sweeping the floor. Step 4: Always be early Step 5: Out work everyone around you Step 6: Do every task ever given to you to the best of your ability and if your ability isn't good enough, figure out how to learn what you need to learn to exceed expectations.
-------------------- No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. ~ Niels Bohr
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