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Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by temporaryi3 on Monday November 08, 2021 @08:41AM (#29149153)
What do you do when you don't have that itch?
Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by Clubber on Monday November 08, 2021 @09:21AM (#29149534)
You probably won't be successful. As the landscape currently is, and has been for quite a while, you have to really enjoy doing it to the point where you self educate quite a bit. If you aren't willing to do that you will fall behind your peers.

It's similar to playing the guitar. The people who are good at it don't just take a guitar class and call it a day, they spend hours working to improve their playing, learn a bunch of songs, learn to play them perfectly from beginning to end, and learn to write their own songs. That's what it takes to be a successful guitar player. Coding is similar.

Re:Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s by squiffsquiff on Monday November 08, 2021 @09:51AM (#29149832)
To be honest, if you don't have some external driver meaningful to you then it can be pretty hard to absorb the knowledge