I have enough savings and credit to survive if I went that route and it failed
It is very strange. Maybe it is like a mid life crisis or something, but I decided to quit my career of over twenty five years last week. I made a decision that I want to have change in my middle age till retirement. I was working as an electrician all this time. But now, I wish to be a certified heating and air conditioning specialist! So I have booked and paid for classes at a local college to go to HVAC school for the next 6 months in order to get my certification. It is going to be strange going back to school after all these decades in my middle ages here. I will probably be with people that are young enough to be my kids! But never the less, I need to do this because repairing central heating and air conditioning systems is something that I originally wanted to do for a living, but at the time there were no HVAC schools near me, so I ended up going with my second choice which was being an electrician. After I graduate from heating and air conditioning school my plan is to apply at a few local heat and a/c companies, and then if I can not get hired there, to start my own HVAC business as an independent heat and a/c contractor. It will be a bit risky doing that, but I will try it if all else fails. I have enough savings and credit to survive if I went that route and it failed. And at the worst, I would go back to being an electrician. But hopefully, that will not happen!