I went back to school thru VA VocRehab at the young age of 35 to start an engineering degree. Calculus was a b***ch and I got a sympathy D from a professor younger than me!
But it worked out fairly well after nearly 5 years of part time work, sometimes 3 part time jobs while going to school full time.
Then I got to see the disappointed looks on interviewers' faces when they thought they were interviewing someone age 25=28 instead of someone pushing 40.
What kept me going was the friends and family that didn't think I could do it!
Ha! In their faces!
VA VocRehab lets you go back to school? I was temporarily disabled and SocSec VocRehab wanted to train me to become an office drone...but going back to school was not an option.