For the last seventeen years, I worked in research studying pedophilia in a large psychiatric hospital. Budget cuts meant my job was gone and I was laid off. With no prospects of finding work like this again at least not in this city, I stated graduate school in a new field. At the age of 55 I am the oldest in my Masters of Social Work Program and I will be 58 when I graduate. After graduation I will work in the same field but now instead of research I will work with a treatment team for sexual offenders. Not exactly how I planned my life but you have to adapt to bumps in the road.