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I’m 34. My whole life I’ve been either and artist or a web developer (the HTML and CSS and Ruby kind, not the cool Node servers and React kind). Working at Microsoft as a PM with some incredible engineers for a year made me realize: software engineering is really cool. Algorithms? Weekend fun! Data structures? Fascinating! GPUs? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. This is probably a career path I would’ve walked earlier if I’d just been exposed to the right people and resources. Now I’ve got a REALLY good career going in web design. But some days I’d give anything for a job that would let me go to school for computer science and work with software engineers again. Too late? Am I crazy?
There was a guy posted something here a while back: started SDE at 34 at entry level. So no, it's not late.
You are not late my friend. There is nothing like having a passion and desire to learn. Your past experience can help you standout. You can enroll part time or learn on you own pace somehow, while still doing the job that gets you a good paycheck.
Sounds cool, but not worth it man. You'll grow out of this fad pretty soon, and regret pausing / drifting from a good career.
if you wanna be surrounded by new grads aged 22 making the same or twice as much as you then go ahead. Btw the shelf life of a software engineer is only about 10-15 years. So you would be entering this industry right about at an age when senior engs would consider a move.
If 34 is late, what about when you’ll be 54? And then 74?
You can do it but be low skill some people have been training for engineering since like 10
Yes. But perhaps I bring some other skills to the table that they didn’t spend some of their ten thousand hours learning.
I disagree. Most of the developers I see here have zero passion and many are mediocre. Having a passion for programming can be a boon.
Absolutely go for it! In this industry you have to reinvent yourself every 5 years in order to stay relevant. If you put in time and hard work you will shoot up quickly.
I didn't start coding until around age 37, was a lawyer previously. Age 40 now, starting at Google next month. Changing careers is easily one of the best decisions I ever made.
Just wait until your first year anniversary passes and you realize 22 year old new grads can do your job. A 22 year old fresh out of college could not do your job if you were a lawyer with 10+ years experience.
Lol, you're a ball of sunshine 😁
Nothing is ever too late in your life! Go get em while you still can
Please can you also tell me how to get *ouT* of engineering?