I think IT security is an area thst will remain hot until we retire. I’d focus on building skills there.
Consider contacting the college / university that you left & see what they require for you to finish your bachelor’s degree.
You might be able to complete the degree in sociology more quickly through that institution by taking courses near where you live now or possibly online. AND, since you’re interested in CS, perhaps CS courses that tie into sociology could be used. As one example, research-related courses, like dealing with large data sets, might work.
You could also complete bachelor’s degree, then do master’s degree or post-bac graduate certificate in area of interest. A relative of mine, who hadn’t completed BA in non-English major, wanted to teach ESL. It was more efficient & effective to complete original major with courses taken closer to home, then complete ESL program as grad student. Did this in late middle age.
Do you like statistical programming and data visualization? R, STATA, etc. and simple stuff like MSFT Acess and Tableu? Another hot area is supply chain where programming and statistics are valuable.
Thank you ALL for these suggestions, they are very, very helpful in offering options for me to consider and I really appreciate everyone’s time and thought here.
We do have a local CC, a tech school and a branch of State U nearby, and they offer online classes. I have a meeting with one to discuss options next week. But the cost is high, or rather, not cheaper than the Harvard or most online options I’ve seen. However, the Harvard option is almost twice as much for CS than it is for everything else. H is willing to review my transcript though, so I am keeping that alive for now also.
Will look into WGU also.
^^Good for your D!! 
If you’re interested in Project Management, the PMP certification is huge (in fact required for some positions). However, it does require that you be able to document several years spent working as a project manager - yeah, chicken and egg. Many people go for CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) first. It was mentioned above you can study for PMP online - this is true, but it has to be an approved course for you to be able to sit for the exam. I took a very affordable course through my state PMI chapter.
What your degree is in is pretty much irrelevant for many project management positions. Smaller companies may not even care so much that you don’t have a degree. I’ve got PMs working for me with degrees ranging from engineering to history.
For coding, there are boot camps. Quality varies, and understanding the success they have placing grads is critical. We have one local boot camp where the competition is fierce to hire the top graduates.
I just graduated last week with a BA after 29 years and 10 colleges (and an 18 yo and 16 yo). I’m 47.
I vastly preferred the in-class classes to the online classes, but I am someone who likes human contact and interaction. I know some of my classmates took as many online classes as they could.
My degree was from my in-state directional university, and it was pretty affordable for me because I commuted (loooooong commute, though). The other 9 colleges ranged from a fairly prestigious university to a technical “college” that nobody would take the credits from, and everything in between. I did get an AA way back in the day to lock in some of those lower level credits, and I am glad I did.
For me I went back for a personal sense of completion, a sense of confidence in my abilities, to be the first on my side of the family with a college degree, and to show my daughters that college is important. On H’s side they all have advanced degrees, so I also kinda wanted to catch up :).
I would say that I was successful because I was honest with myself about what kind of degree I wanted and how I wanted to get it. Other times I’d tried to juggle too much, picked the wrong kind of school, or the wrong major.
The first semester you go back your brain may be like “oh what fresh hell is this!” but you’ll get used to it. By the time I graduated I was taking 5 classes and had senior show stuff on top of that! I’m amazed at what I’ve accomplished!
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“The first semester you go back your brain may be like “oh what fresh hell is this!” but you’ll get used to it.”
Yup, that is a familiar feeling. Another thing… The younger classmates might look at you like you are a creature from Mars. Ignore them. The young techies in my program were looking at me with pity… Look at this old lady… She’s gonna fail. I was whipping their butts in stats and marketing and much more.
I <3 these stories 
Yeah, the first month or so in any class I kept quiet and let them get used to having me around, especially if it was in a class that didn’t have a lot of people I knew from other classes. I also didn’t try and “mom” them, and worked hard at being good at the class without being a know it all. I have a LOT of them as facebook and instagram friends now
The more difficult part for me is that the professors were typically my age and would be my social peers, but I had to remember that they were my instructors, not my friends and to stay deferential. Although now I’m good friends with a lot of them, too, lol. But not until after I finished their classes.
There was one professor who kept using her age as an argument to assure the students that her wackadoodle point of view was right, and I really had to bite my tongue over that. Settled for a lot of eyerolling and side-eye glances when the other kids would look to me for confirmation. (the professor and I were the exact same age).