I'm a dummy with a humanities degree approaching the end of my twenties that is disillusioned after coming across this website. I want to buy a house, start a family, take care of my aging mother and eliminate my crippling student loan debt. How do I go from poor overworked baggage handler to financially secure overworked 300k software engineer? I'm willing to put in the work but I can't afford to go to boot camp or school or anything like that. I'm too poor. TC: 32k
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Get in touch with computer science people and ask them to put a study plan for you. Coding camps can be very useful but you also need to have some background in hardware, operating systems, networking, software design, etc to be an effective software engineer. Many software engineers can’t cross the $60k or $80k because they are low tier Also, take a look at the courses offered by stanford CS department and start from there. You may need 6 months to 1 year of full time study but its a worthwhile investment
I don't intend to be dense, but as stated, I am a dummy; When you say "CS people", what do you mean? I don't have a network really in that arena and don't have much experience reaching out to strangers. From a local university or something? I want to believe that this is great advice, but I'm likely so cynical of people that I just don't imagine getting a great response.
People (preferably friends) who have computer science degrees, many of them are people on Blind.
Not all boot camps are expensive . Learn coding - by yourself or community college , look at what a bootcamp will teach and use other means to learn that
Well, too poor in the sense that I can't afford to take the time off to do it, because I work paycheck to paycheck for the most part. Even if I managed to save up the money to pay for it, there's no way I could be out of work for the 12 weeks or up to 24 weeks some of them want you to commit for. I wish that I could.
There are free boot camps if you’re good enough to pass their interviews
It’s going to take many years to build these skills without college or bootcamp. If you have the maths background you can look at the online MIT course material for CS, search for MIT opencourseware on YouTube ...
I don't have a math background at all. But I'm really, really sick of being poor and would happily fight to strengthen my math skills as necessary. But I'm pretty sure my math is about an 8th grade level, this far removed from school.
Then work on your maths first, CS is heavy maths theory. Either that, or just find some free programming classes and learn by doing, but again, we’re talking multiple years if not a decade to get to current 300k like offers
Get a job in customer Success and that gets you in the door. From there you can go to any other role.
There are boot camps will only charge after you get hired as a software engineer.
Look up Lambda School, Hack Reactor, etc
Lambda is a scam.
I am. I worked Apple Retail for 5 years, promoted to the role of Genius and excelled in that role. That skillset doesn't seem to transfer over to the tech world as well as I thought/hoped it would.
You'd be surprised at how those skills translate. Understanding customer behaviors and how they use technology directly relates to solving large scale issues. Training support engineers to ask the right questions to get the answers you need from non-technical customers is critical experience.
With your profile man, I'd say stay away from coding. Try to find an alternate career that pays better and with experience develops skills that sells for more with time. You can't become an expert baggage handler and demand more money in future.
I'm definitely on the search for an alternate career, hence my post. When you suggest I stay away from coding, why is that?
Because folks with your background lacking the skills as you mentioned historically have a low likelihood of succeeding. Maybe it is better to first get to a point where you have a higher income and then try to move into coding if you still want to.
This needs to be x-posted in politics as social experiment.
I'll be the guinea pig for a social experiment if I'm in a controlled environment operated by well-intended, experienced professionals.
Well intended might be tough to find in the troll infestation that is blind app
What are you good at? Math? Working with people? Etc. Be as honest as possible.
I'm good at solving (abstract) problems, but professionally customer service is one of my strong suits.I worked for Apple as a Genius for a few years and excelled in that position, but that's really just tech support.
Where you located? I might be able to refer you to a sales job with some really kickass perks.