Covid career change – from cruise ship cleaner to developer
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#2Funny that the whole thing reads like an ad for Scrimba but when asked what he'd recommend for others Scrimba barely makes an honorary mention.
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#3I am ready for metric fuck ton of downvotes.
Why don’t people keep this shit a secret man? This profession has been looked down on for years, and this is just bad for my brand man.
I’m happy for everyone that makes it, but Jesus, ‘nocsdegree.com’, like we’re proud of this now? Keep it on the down-low.
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#4I am ready for metric fuck ton of downvotes. Why don’t people keep this shit a secret man? This profession has been looked down on for years, and this is just bad for my brand man. I’m happy for everyone that makes it, but Jesus, ‘nocsdegree.com’, like we’re proud of this now? Keep it on the down-low.
Anyone can learn to code, that's the democratizing force of tech in action.
Maintaining a "brand" is mostly about upholding a reputation. If you're good at what you do and can prove it to others then having more people in the field isn't really a threat.
One of the most highly-skilled, highly-paid engineers I know has only a high school diploma. But he also has a reputation and over 15 years of proven experience in the field.
I like hiring people out of coding boot camps because they're easy to hire and I love mentoring people. I don't really feel threatened by them because it takes a lot of work experience to actually level up in this field.
Re: Covid career change – from cruise ship cleaner to developer
#5I am ready for metric fuck ton of downvotes. Why don’t people keep this shit a secret man? This profession has been looked down on for years, and this is just bad for my brand man. I’m happy for everyone that makes it, but Jesus, ‘nocsdegree.com’, like we’re proud of this now? Keep it on the down-low.
Looking down on people is human nature. I'm self taught myself, no formal education of any kind and I'm the first person in my family to work a white collar job like this. My experience is even people in my own family can't help but make snide comments when I succeed. Some time ago I walked out of ear shot at a family gathering and my own grandmother dismissively mentioned that my success was simply because "he applies to a lot of jobs", she loves me and means well but even she can't resist. Let it roll off you like water on a duck.
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#6Good to know there’s another 10-15 years of high salaries before the gravy train stops. The number of people learning to code and switching careers now is insane. And anyone anywhere with a laptop and internet can do it.
I’m hoping I can stretch my career out by getting good at mentoring and management and helping all this new talent. But those entering now should seriously plan towards finding other sources of income as well by the time they hit 35+.
Re: Covid career change – from cruise ship cleaner to developer
#7Good to know there’s another 10-15 years of high salaries before the gravy train stops. The number of people learning to code and switching careers now is insane. And anyone anywhere with a laptop and internet can do it. I’m hoping I can stretch my career out by getting good at mentoring and management and helping all this new talent. But those entering now should seriously plan towards finding other sources of incom…
> Good to know there’s another 10-15 years of high salaries before the gravy train stops.
Sorry but how did you arrive at this conclusion with exact year ranges?
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#8Good to know there’s another 10-15 years of high salaries before the gravy train stops. The number of people learning to code and switching careers now is insane. And anyone anywhere with a laptop and internet can do it. I’m hoping I can stretch my career out by getting good at mentoring and management and helping all this new talent. But those entering now should seriously plan towards finding other sources of incom…
Or you could work towards having a higher moat skillset. It's hard to work in distributed systems or embedded systems without a lot of training.
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#9Good to know there’s another 10-15 years of high salaries before the gravy train stops. The number of people learning to code and switching careers now is insane. And anyone anywhere with a laptop and internet can do it. I’m hoping I can stretch my career out by getting good at mentoring and management and helping all this new talent. But those entering now should seriously plan towards finding other sources of incom…
> Good to know there’s another 10-15 years of high salaries before the gravy train stops. Sorry but how did you arrive at this conclusion with exact year ranges?
Thats around the time it'll take the students / college students to learn and become experienced developers. Plus everyone switching now because of bootcamps and Covid. Its also a pretty wide range.
Re: Covid career change – from cruise ship cleaner to developer
#10Good to know there’s another 10-15 years of high salaries before the gravy train stops. The number of people learning to code and switching careers now is insane. And anyone anywhere with a laptop and internet can do it. I’m hoping I can stretch my career out by getting good at mentoring and management and helping all this new talent. But those entering now should seriously plan towards finding other sources of incom…
Or you could work towards having a higher moat skillset. It's hard to work in distributed systems or embedded systems without a lot of training.
The moat is the difficulty in getting practical training / experience. I'm all ears for say how a JS developer can break into distributed systems.