Hi, My husband (30 years old )wants to switch his career to IT( probably developer). He is currently working as a Design Architecture ( Designing buildings, Autocad etc). He is team lead at current role and making good progress career wise. But, problem is he is not really enjoying the profession and pay is also very low ( 80K per year). He is really fast learner and i think can quickly pick up programming. He loves to develop new software products and curious about programming. Ask: Do you guys really recommend him to switch to IT ? Since all the effort he needs to learn from very basic and hard to crack interviews, Path is not easy . If any of you recently switched to IT from Civil Eng or Similar background, which course did you take? Are those coursera course are enough or better to go with Bootcamp? Education: MS in Architecture and Design TC: 80k Saving: 10k #careeer #IT
IT is basically a JIRA ticket resolver, where he will be taking ticket after ticket, helping people solve their computer and access issues. Are you sure you mean IT? Will he actually enjoy that more than design architecture? I feel like design architect is a much cooler profession. Doesn’t pay as much but better than being a JIRA minion
since I am also developer, I know what do you mean. But, his concern is pay is low and not really enjoying the job.
Is his future earnings potentially good/enough? I personally don’t know anyone who really enjoys IT, most usually leave it to do something more technical and less ticket based. If he put the same effort into pivoting to something he would enjoy already in his field, would he be happy and make “enough”? Making a career change like this into a role that he might not like as well is a huge risk. Unless he would love it, then that’s ok, but I would be surprised if a job in IT paid significantly more than he makes now
Should switch to Agriculture
I don't see why not if he can pick up the skills on his own. The hardest thing will be getting that first job in the new field. Hopefully you have a network that can help him land a jr role?
The free money party is over in tech for this 10 year cycle. How tech hires entry level: CS, Math, maybe Physics, Electrical Engineering degrees be young and willing to work 80-100 hours a week. There are exceptions, but they are passionate and well exceptional. On top of that, the market is saturated right now with highly skilled back end engineers layer off from big tech and chat gpt is peaking over the horizon as a entry level dev replacement. Currently, I would not recommend anyone switch. Maybe in a year or two it will shake out but currently market is rough and contraction is still happening.
Agreed this is really good advice. IMO the guy should find a higher paying job in civil/architect for near future while coding on the side. Although it wouldn’t be like 400-500K TC or something I’m sure he can get make half of that which is still a lot to live off of and way more stable and only have to work 40 hours!
Stay in his lane. Dont switch. Grass is not always greener. Cheers
concern is low pay and job satisfaction
but I agree, grass is not always greener
Bootcamp is the easiest and fastest way
Tell him to go into one of those jobs working for a city/county. They can make some good money…also get pensions. He may just need a PE license. Honestly in the current state of things there’s no correct path. It looks like he has a few years of work experience under his belt so I’d say he apply to other hardware jobs and go into management or something. He should be able to make 200K TC with 10 YOE + MS and it would be more stable and a lot more reachable in the near future IMO if you need the money right now. Also he can learn coding on the side on his free time.
I did the switch from Civil to CS, everyone has a different journey and I feel like I can put some of my perspective into how to transition and get an actual job in Cs. He needs a degree doesn’t matter if he is the CEO of a civil engineering company if you want to work at any top and mid tier companies he needs a degree from an actual university, preferably public and atleast 100-200 in the sense of ranking. Question for you, Do you think he’d be able to compete alongside with starting a family and raising them? Would you be comfortable with doing more than youre doing right now to raise the family, would he be comfortable with missing his kids early life to earn more money? I know everyone want’s money and it makes them acceptable in the society but also think what is at stake by chasing it at this point in life.
thanks for details. Do you think actual university degree is must? Have seen many people from physics or Chemistry etc.
Yes actual degree matters especially if you’re coming from a different background and for people who you saw are like a one in a million and they could have a solid networking to help them out.
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Can’t you answer this yourself then 😃