Big Dave

I am a qualified Computer Engineer (MCSE) with 20 years experience in the field. I moved to Perth, Australia 2 years ago with a permanent residency visa, granted because of my experience and qualifications and due to a supposed lack of people in my industry.

I have since tried to setup a computer business for software and a general computer services company with very little success despite spending considerable sums of cash on marketing via flyers etc.

My small customer base always have me back so quality of work is not an issue, I am just struggling to get enough customers to make ends meet.

So, is it time to just give up and go work for a corporation again? I did this for a few years and know that I wont get any job satisfaction from it but at least I will be earning some cash.

I also considered re-training for a new career but at 37 I may be too late to do that.

Has anyone here had similar experience with setting up in business? Or has anyone retrained this late in life?

Does anyone know the artist and song title from the new Virgin Broadband advert running in Australia. The lyrics start something like..."she told me to stay, or go away"