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All of my experience was mainframes and cobol anyway, and leaving that for a more modern SWE is a radical path change as well.
Anyway. Working as a SWE sucked all of the fun out of it. Now I get to enjoy it as a hobby again.
I worked for small startups for 2.5 years in order to gain relevant experiences.
Yes, twice in fact. Went from being a geologist for environmental consulting firms -> community management for various tech websites -> software engineer. Each has worked out better than the last and brought me more enjoyment (and dollar bills as well, ah gem). I still like my rocks, but I really like coding, too. Now over 40 though. Hoping to stick with the software engineering side of things from here on out. But w…
And, if you care to postulate, do you think the opportunities are more for geologists to supplement their work with programming or more for software engineers to solve geology problems for geologists?
Yes, twice in fact. Went from being a geologist for environmental consulting firms -> community management for various tech websites -> software engineer. Each has worked out better than the last and brought me more enjoyment (and dollar bills as well, ah gem). I still like my rocks, but I really like coding, too. Now over 40 though. Hoping to stick with the software engineering side of things from here on out. But w…
Planning on it and I'm almost 40. I'm in tech now, but in life I really enjoy deep 1-1 time with people more than anything else I do at work. I've got a 5-year plan to leave tech and go back to school to become a therapist, specifically working with people suffering from OCD (and perhaps some other forms of anxiety). At this point it's mostly meeting with people in the industry to hear their stories, with a goal of a…
In a gold rush (mental health crisis society), sell shovels?
I'm trying to break into SE (at 32 from an accounting background), but not having a US/EU passport and living in a third world makes it hard. So I will say that depending on where you are from, things can get tricky. But the usual still stands, you get jobs by knowing the right people.
Plenty of poeple live in 3rd world countries and have found ways to break into SE and make a decent living. If they can do it, so can you. All the best