<p>^Going back to school is not a risk, it is adjustment to correct a personal error. I have done it. So, what did I miss? Frankly, nothing, learned to trust myself much more than anybody else. Now they call me super stuborn and I love it.
Anyway, I went into engineering mainly because I loved math and because my father was an engineer. Since academics was not that hard for me (later I realized that engineering is the hardest of them all, since most others are much easier), i continue my merry way and actually was working for 11 years as an engineer, waiting and waiting and waiting until it started to feel good…and it never did. So, what options one has in this situation? You can continue feeling miserable for the rest of your life or go back to what you always had in your heart (but your father did not know and you did not know that loving math may not lead to your proper place in life). I focused on the secon option, went back to school for CS, got the job and have been very happy sie then. While some may say that I have wasted my years in darn engineering, I do not see it this way at all. It was a huge part of my life, it made an impact on who I am now and who I am with.<br>
BTW, most of going back to school was paid by varios employers.</p>