Change in the time of Change.

I have a friend of a friend who did the unthinkable.  He went back to college at the age of fifty and got his teaching certifiicate.  In class he was the wonder boy.  He was celebrated for the act of being persistent and changing the path of his life.  He was favored.  He graduated at the wonderful age of fifty-five.  In his mind, he thought that he was going to recieve what the college kids recieved who attended college in their twenties.  He even thought himself superior to those people.  Upon graduation, life settled in and one by one, all the youngsters began to get their first job.  He went on interviews and waited.  He never got called.  You see, fifty-five is too old to enter the teaching profession as a budding teacher.  You are so close to retirement that you will end up being a liability to the district.  I guess he did not thing that that mattered.  His timing did matter.  He did lose something by his lack of common sense.  Often times, we feel that if we just change with the times we will lose nothing.  This person changed and found that he lost everything.  There is a time and a season where you can sin and their is not enough time to make things right.  He should have been striving to change his career path while he could still give the district a twenty year reign.  As it stands, he may only be able to give ten before they would have to put more money into him than he would earn.  They don't tell the oldtimers that in college.  The old timers come to class with their shorts on and a bucket of coffee trying to relive what they did not do in their youth and it is sad.  They enter a market that leaves them out in the cold.  By the age of fifty, he should have been a superintendent or a dean, not a begining teacher, but no one told him that.  No one said that you will not have the same experience as those who attended college in the time of attending college.  You have to change in the time of changing.