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Advice for optimization

Any insights are appreciated, I just started this account on 04/01/26, I'm on a low income at 50,500 while being the sole earner in my household. I'm 28 years old, I will be selling my home and moving into an apartment to go back to school for an airframe and power plant mechanic program to increase my income and one day I will leverage that equity and higher income for a new home and better investing potential. I have 0 consumer debt just a mortgage. I have been feeling a little hopeless as of late concerning my financial future.

u/Comfortable_Host_881 — 20 hours ago
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Hello all I am In need of some advice.

I am considering changing career paths from working in higher education to instrumentation. I have zero experience in this field. I work a white collar data analytics/ auditing job I don't know fancy programming languages just mostly use Excel power query and pivot tables to look at large sums of data. My home life has fallen apart recently and my life is in need of some dire financial changes so this is why I am considering the field, I have heard the pay is very good. I am considering moving to Waco Texas to attend TSTC, I would sell my home and use the equity and find a part-time job to study. I have always been talented in math and science, while I may work a white collar job I have also always been interested in figuring out how things work mechanically or electronically.

I do have some concerns specifically about having zero relevant experience in the field, I am mainly worried that I will use the equity and go into some debt for this program and it will yield no career opportunities, I don't want to waste my equity and leave my current position in higher education for nothing. But, I am willing to risk it all, to be uncomfortable, to slave away, to become a conduit of learning, anything for a job that will pay me well and allow me to support myself and to build a better financial future.

Has anyone else made a similar transition? Does anyone have any advice for me to boost my chances of employment during the program or after? Or, does anyone just have some general life advice?

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u/Comfortable_Host_881 — 28 days ago