Is there any value to a CS degree at 50?
I'm 50. I've been building hardware and programming since I was 18. I live in the Santa Clarita, CA. College was touch-and-go. It was always going too slow for me. By age 20 I was working as an engineer doing both hardware and software. At age 24 I had saved-up enough to buy my first house. I had a good career and was soon making over $100K per year doing the stuff I really enjoyed. I eventually started a tech business in my garage. Within three years it grew out of the garage and into a good size industrial facility with a dozen employees or so, in-house SMT assembly, CNC machining, low volume manufacturing, etc. As is the case with most businesses, there were ups and downs. The economic implosion of 2008 caught me in a perfect storm that ultimately led to killing the business after a two year gut-wrenching attempt to save it any which way I could. At the end of 2010 I had to
Why it failed
I'm 50. I've been building hardware and programming since I was 18. I live in the Santa Clarita, CA. College was touch-and-go. It was always going too slow for me. By age 20 I was working as an engineer doing both hardware and software. At age 24 I had saved-up enough t
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- random_user
- Ended
- 2013
- Source
- hackernews