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Re:Covid career change – from cruise ship cleaner to developer by questime on Friday February 26, 2021 @12:52PM (#26277628)
Or you could work towards having a higher moat skillset. It's hard to work in distributed systems or embedded systems without a lot of training.
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Re:Covid career change – from cruise ship cleaner to developer by thewarrior on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:04PM (#26277771)
The moat is the difficulty in getting practical training / experience. I'm all ears for say how a JS developer can break into distributed systems.
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Re:Covid career change – from cruise ship cleaner to developer by questime on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:23PM (#26277983)
It's really tough but you could take online classes and read textbooks. Also side projects. But it being difficult to teach yourself is the whole point, I rarely see bootcampers working in certain disciplines because of the amount of CS education (networks, OS, algorithms) they need to self teach themselves. I'm in the camp that CS degrees are valuable for that reason.
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Re:Covid career change – from cruise ship cleaner to developer by rusticpenn on Friday February 26, 2021 @02:45PM (#26278999)
But less money than software.
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