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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP back.  Wife and I had a long talk.  She knows the current job is an immense source of frustration - tired of the upper senior management threatening all of our jobs.  And I will admit, it is the catalyst for thinking about graduate school.  If the job was going fantastically, this probably would not have come up.  But reality is what it is.  For me, I tend to be highly self-reflective.  And because of this work situation, I am pondering different decisions - would my life have been different if I went away and graduated from a prestigious school?  What if I had taken another job?  Did I do my due diligence for this position?  Nobody can go back in time, but we can learn from mistakes and try not to repeat them.

My wife also mentioned something else.  She said, "[b]you have an MBA from a better business school with lots of successful graduates, a license that is hard to get and respected, if that is not enough, what is for you"?  I see her points.  But at the same time, I really want to move my career in a different direction and leverage new learning with my other experiences.  I really do not want to wake up in ten years doing the same things I am doing today.  That is where this graduate program comes in.  At the least, I am going to get a bigger network.[/b]

What it came down to is, my wife is not crazy about the idea but sees that it has merit vs. a husband who is either going to be miserable with stress or die from it.  So we are working through this idea:  me taking the GRE in a couple of months, hopefully getting accepted, and then trying a course or two.  If being there proves that it is a solid opportunity, great and continue.  If not, at least I tried and can put on my resume that I took a couple of graduate courses.  She is a very different person from me.  I more of a Type A who is always trying to prove something while she is laid back.

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I am younger and have been in the same position thinking the same thing (even thinking about going back and having the college experience thing like you talked about).

You don't need school.

You need a career coach and likely a therapist to help you build up your confidence to move on and forward.

You have enough education that at this point you can already use the degrees and work experience you have to parlay into another career.

You have to learn to sell your experience and education and make connections and parlay that into how it would be effective into your new desired job even when the connection might seem weak.  Talk and network right now with those in your desired field. Look for alumni contacts from the schools you did graduate from and just the general social circle you have. 
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