Shall I go back to school?

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I have a dilemma!

As most of you know by now, I have been made redundant and I am re-orienting my future. I have been looking into doing a course for adults in IT and last Friday I had a chat at a school not far from Zürich. There I was told that I would not be accepted into this 'Adults' course as I lack the basic education and I can't show that I have sufficient working experience in this area. Which I am alright with.

We then started looking into the possibility of doing an official 3 year education into programming. There are several benefits for me in doing this course:

• At the end you get an Official diploma vs a certificate from the school saying you did said course
• The future perspectives in this branch are much better compared to tourism
• Salaries are much higher, in this branch a 25 year old would earn what I earn now
• There is a high demand for programmers and it's even being pushed by the government
• This education is half the price of the other course

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These are all strong points in favor of doing this education, but then there's the negatives or dilemma's I'm struggling with. I know some of them are a bit silly, but they still add up on the negative side of the scales:

1. It's 3 years of studying, will I be able to persevere?
2. I'll have to attend school 1 day a week, instead of being able to work that day
3. Besides the 1 week-day, I'll also have to go to school on Saturday mornings and have an average of 4-6 hours of homework a week - remember I also have a family that require my attention
4. I am afraid of mathematics, in school I was never a star in the theory and I had a glance in one of the theory books and my heart literally skipped 5 seconds
5. Besides all this I have a family to provide for, how will I do that whilst doing an education?
6. The average age in the class will be 25, almost 15 years more than I am ...
7. From the 4^th semester I will need a job in this area, I have the fear that I won't find one
8. Last but not least, I don't have a job at the moment, how can I sell this to a possible future employer?

The positives actually outweigh the negatives and my wife supports me in doing this, but that does not take away from the fact that I have these fears going through my head. Especially points 1, 4 and 8 are bothering me. So I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how I can overcome these fears.

I've spoken with some people about this before and I know that this is the right thing to do, but if I fail a subject, then it might be all wasted time, money and efforts if I can't make it to the next semester. So even if you don't have any experience with this particular education, how do you handle that fear and how do you persevere into seeing something through to the end?

Any advice is more than welcome at this moment to put my mind at ease a bit!

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