[glory]

Have you thought of branching out in areas where your expertise may be useful? Scrapbooking and all it's tools and such is big money right now. No doubt your expertise would be useful and if you have any creativity at all, you probably could even consult on a professional level about saving memories and such. I'm suggesting this after doing a search on your job.

[gcruse]

Not really. I am a photofinishing engineer. That involves chemical process control and diagnostics, computer programming and balancing of high speed printing and processing equipment, and effluent control. I'm too close to retirement age for it to be worthwhile to go back to school. Even though willing to work anywhere in the country, the jobs in the industry are either not there due to consolidation and downsizing, or age discrimination is at play. I did very well by specializing, but the narrowness of applicability cut things short. Thanks for you reply.