Sounds good. I relearned basic Java over the past month, it was enjoyable and easy to pick up. Since the product I'm supporting uses C# and JScript, I will learn those next, along with HTML. I plan to stick around my current company for 2-3 years. People at my company tend to have been there for a really long time, suggesting there aren't a lot of opportunity to move within the company, but on the other hand this means lifestyle is good at this company, and the reason I moved back to tech is mainly for lifestyle.

I'm making about 1/4 of what I used to make, but also working 40% less. I have substantial savings from from my lawyering days, so money is not a big concern. My hometown is a hick little place, I'm getting paid about 70k now, which is more than the median here. Not having to carry a blackberry and be on-call 24/7 is great. I've only been doing my current job for 2 months, the goal right now is of course to do this job well, and reacquaint myself with things like Apache, IIS, Oracle, etc. Even though I have a computer science degree, I was never much of a programmer. I'd probably stay on the operational side of IT, something like network admin, information security, maybe web programming. I don't expect to make anywhere near what I used to make, nor do I want to, just looking for more interesting work with better lifestyle. :-D

I worked for 2 years on web programming, and then went into corporate law. That was about 10 years ago. I got sick of working on credit derivatives, running deals and pulling all nighters, so I quit my job at big law firm, and moved my family back to my hometown from DC. I'm not back in tech, but not sure where to go from here, and would really appreciate all your advice and input. I'm working in a client support role for an enterprise software company. The product I support is a business process management suite. This role touches on web hosting, database, some scripting and of course client management. I help clients resolve issues, document bugs and work with developers to release hot-fix etc. Given that I'm quite rusty with all things technical, this seems like a good starting point. The issue is that I feel support is kind of dead end, particularly given I'm working in a branch office that handles only support for the most part. I'd like to move out of support into other fields. Any ideas? I'm thinking something like InfoSec can be quite interesting. Development sounds cool as well, but at 35 I may be too old for that.