When Valentino Eriksen decided to retire from his 50-year career managing a rowdy Miami Beach nightclub, the 69-year-old refused to slow down.
Instead of sleeping in and lounging on the beach with a book in hand, Eriksen is up at 5 a.m. — the same ungodly hour he would wrap up his club shift — to grab a coffee before running to his first college class of the day.
Eriksen, a journalism major and aspiring e-commerce business owner studying at Miami Dade College, is one of many ambitious elders who have gone back to school to start over and embark on a new career path.
Finally embarking on a higher-ed journey that had been on pause for decades…
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