"And then one day you find, ten years got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun..."

To the author: Hang in there, man! You're just feeling the time crunch, now that you have kids and other responsibilities. Based on your age, it would have been the mid-1990s when your professional career started. Back then, the economy was a lot better and outsourcing hadn't yet taken over at large companies. It's a little more dog-eat-dog economically, but your brain probably still works fine. Just take a breath and keep going.