问HN：重返校园的困难
我32岁，没有学位，过去8年一直从事软件开发工作，现在想回学校学习机械或电气工程。
问题是，我找不到可行的办法来实现这个目标。为了真正投入学习，我必须面对面上课，这将很难与全职工作平衡，同时我还需要工作来支付生活开支。否则，我可以选择只上网课的学位，这样可以让我继续工作，但我知道实践时间是非常重要的。我不确定完全在线的学位如何运作。
还有费用的问题。我很难找到学费低于8万美元的项目，而毕业后我将从底层开始，薪水也不会很高。我确实有一个选择，可以在我出生的东欧国家以更低的费用就读，但我认为将学位转移到欧盟以外的地方并不容易。
我真的不知道如何才能实现这个目标，如果我能做到的话。我至少希望能获得某种学位，即使是计算机科学（在线学习相对容易），但这仍然是个昂贵的选择。我身边没有人能给我很好的建议，因此我非常希望能听到你们的建议。
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I'm 32, no degree, been working in software development for the last 8 years, and I want to go back to school for mechanical/electrical engineering.<p>The problem is, I can't find a way to make it work. To really commit to it I'd have to do it in person and it would be hard to balance with a full time job and I would need to work to just pay for life. Otherwise, I could take an online only degree which would allow me to work but I know that bench time is really important. I'm not sure how it would work with a fully online degree.<p>There's also the costs. I'm having trouble finding programs under 80k, and coming out of it I would be starting at the bottom of the ladder not making as much. I do have an option to attend at my country of birth, in Eastern Europe, for much cheaper but I don't think it's easy to transfer that outside of the EU.<p>I just don't know how to make it work, if I can. I would at least like to have a degree of some sort, even if it's computer science (easier online) but it's still an expensive one. I don't have anyone that can really give me great advice on this so I would appreciate any advice from you all.