Advice on starting my tech journey.

I’ve been working in finance the past 9 years but I’m looking to make the switch to tech. The money, challenge, lifestyle, and career prospects seem great and finance is going through structural changes that limit any growth.

My questions are:

1) should I go bootcamp it self taught? I’ve been attending info sessions at Hack Reactor and will apply there, but not sure if self teaching is the way to go.

2) people who made career shifts, or anyone really, what did you wish you knew before starting this?

Thanks!

Edit: to answer your questions: 32 years old. right now I have 9 yoe in investments, less than 1 yoe learning how to code. Current TC is $115K. Very low for finance in NYC, but that’s cause I’ve been at this small firm for a while and that big pay day looks like it won’t come anytime soon.

Degree in finance. Pretty solid finance background (head of Investment selection, helped build infrastructure for my firm from the ground up, ran the largest student run portfolio in the country when I was in school, create the first derivatives trading platform for students using their endowments money). I also started a little side fund/ club that I’m using some python to help with. If you need more info let me know.