[neutronicus]

How are you effecting that transition?

I've been filling the war chest against the potential need to re-train. I'll do nursing school if I have to but if there's a path for someone who spent many years studying computational plasma physics to get into EE I'd want to look at that.

[mschuster91]

I'm heading off to the local university for three years. Thankfully I live in Germany which means no student loan BS and the university is maybe 20 min with a bike away.

[neutronicus]

Ah. Damn.

I'm in the US myself and I have a family so minimizing costs (including opportunity cost of the time spent) is critical.

[mschuster91]

Look into apprenticeships if you're just wanting to get into the trades, that way you can already earn money while training. Maybe your state government has some sort of "board of electricians" that deal with licensing, maybe they can help set you up.