I floated around from major to major for years. My life's dream was to work with animals. I didn't want to be a vet though... I wanted to be a zookeeper and deal with the day-to-day care of exotic animals. I was very lucky to get into the Exotic Animal Training and Management (EATM) program at Moorpark College in 2004 and received my A.S. there in 2006. It was great, but in this past year of looking for work I've found that the jobs I can get with this A.S. are great jobs, but the pay is very low and there are usually no benefits and there is little room for advancement. So, I decided to go back to school. I am 27 years old and will by starting as an upper-division transfer to California State University, Northridge next semester. At CSUN I will be a psychology major. Zoos and marine parks love people with a behavioral psych background because of the emphasis on behavior modification, operant conditioning, and husbandry training. There are always a mix of bio and psych people at all major facilities. The bio people know what the animals need to be physically healthy and the psych people know what they need to be mentally/emotionally healthy. I love both subjects, but my not-so-great math skills would make some of the chemistry classes that go along with a bio major difficult so I picked psych... plus, it may be helpful in my understanding of my own issues along the way. I want to get my BA in Behavioral Psychology and then go for an MA in Experimental Psychology, emphasising cognative abilities of animals. I'm so excited!!! I'm also nervous though, because I am going to be in classes with 20, 21, 22 year olds and I'm 27. Right now I'm taking my last required transfer class at a community college and the oldest person other than myself is 20... most of them are 18 and 19. It's weird... I feel so old. Anyone here go back to college at an older age? Did you manage to fit in socially at all? I need some new friends as most of mine no longer live nearby and I'm hoping to make some in school, but I'm worried about the age gap... people might think there is something wrong with me because it took me this long to get there... What do you think?