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Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by hackitup7 on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:31PM (#29141488)
I'd consider a coding bootcamp, the good ones give you a very minimal brand, but given your business and engineering experience my guess is that it's all you'd need to make the switch fairly seamlessly. You may take a compensation hit.

There are an enormous number of opportunities for software engineers right now, the market is hotter than I've ever seen it. We desperately need people to be retrained, cross-trained, any version of trained.

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Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by RNCTX on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:57PM (#29142332)
> You may take a compensation hit.

Does not align with...

> the market is hotter than I've ever seen it. We desperately need people

Pick one.

If the software / web businesses aren't going to compete with other engineering businesses, they're not going to compete. At the end of the day it's pulling recent grads from the same pools (math/eng).

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Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by sokoloff on Sunday November 07, 2021 @03:37PM (#29143284)
Mid 40s Mech E switching to entry-level SWE may very take a comp hit, even if the SWE field is indeed the hottest I’ve ever seen it (including 1999).
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Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by flower1528 on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:46PM (#29141651)
Which verticals are not saturated yet? Web dev is almost impossible to get in.
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Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by himanshuy on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:51PM (#29141688)
Data engineering is full of opportunities.
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Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by joelbluminator on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:03PM (#29141826)
I think all verticals are really hard for juniors; it's not like everyone is looking for junior C devs...
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