I'm a mid-career accountant in Denver, want to move into data analytics without going back to school full-time, and I have two kids so I can't take a pay cut for more than a couple months.

You have not chosen a direction yet, and the current grounded planner is strongest once the direction is narrower.

So instead of pretending I can ground a full pathway already, use this bounded intake first: 1. What has to improve first? (income, schedule, stability, meaning, growth) 2. How urgent is the income pressure? (need-income-fast, can-build-for-6-12-months, longer-reset-ok) 3. How far do you want to pivot? (stay-close, moderate-pivot, hard-pivot) 4. What kind of work feels most realistic right now? (hands-on, people-care, systems-and-process, open) 5. How open are you to moving? (stay-local, regional-move-ok, fully-open, remote-preferred)

Top live directions to ground first: 1. Nursing entry lane: This lane fits when you want a steadier ladder and a first healthcare step before a larger commitment. 2. Skilled trades lane: This lane fits when you want hands-on work and a paid field-entry path instead of desk-bound drift. 3. Legal-ops pivot lane: This lane fits when workflow, compliance, or governance proof can carry more of your existing experience forward.

Once you choose one direction, Career Friend can rewrite that choice plus your constraints into one grounded follow-up query for the existing live pathway flow.