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Last fall, at age 51 I entered the George Mason economics PhD program and I'm happy as a clam. I expect to have a +/- 20 year career ahead of me instead of the 40 years of my classmates, but that does not make it any less meaningful to me. I think I appreciate the opportunity more because I have a larger base of life experience for comparison.

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I got an MBA at night when i was 30. but didn't really capitalize on it and kept on at my gvernment job. At 37 I went and got my law degree at night graduating when I was 41. i learned from my prior experience and focused on clerkships and graduated number one in my class. my income increased roughly ten times over the government job that i had. Am now at 63 thinking of pursuing a degree in geology to cash in on the oil and gas boom but my wife has balked. But inspired by this Swedish survey I might just do it.

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