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Re:America Is Trying to Electrify. There Aren’t Enough Elect... by expertentipp on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:48AM (#34984527)
Only software industry is so welcoming to unqualified people. In other technical professions even as "simple" as electrician or carpenter without solid apprenticeship started at young age, you'll never make money after switching in later age.
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Re:America Is Trying to Electrify. There Aren’t Enough Elect... by rchaud on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:55AM (#34984667)
That's because the 'software industry' has a lot of jobs that have nothing to do with coding. Being in the vicinity of that however can be helpful for bridging the learning gap.

Even then, the amount of credentialism is extremely high for anything besides the lowest rung of dev jobs. Look at how people on HN turn their noses up at bootcamps, or really anything less than a CS undergrad degree.

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Re:America Is Trying to Electrify. There Aren’t Enough Elect... by the_only_law on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:03PM (#34984785)
> Even then, the amount of credentialism is extremely high for anything besides the lowest rung of dev jobs.

Biggest mistake I made was not going to school and buying into the “you don’t need a degree” stuff. While technically true, it feels extremely limiting when you want to venture outside that “lowest rung”.

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Re:America Is Trying to Electrify. There Aren’t Enough Elect... by wiseowise on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:47PM (#34985574)
> Look at how people on HN turn their noses up at bootcamps, or really anything less than a CS undergrad degree.

And for a good reason.

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Re:America Is Trying to Electrify. There Aren’t Enough Elect... by rchaud on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:57PM (#34986759)
My point is that they'll treat a self-taught person who wants to go into software development the exact same way. It's not bootcamps don't make you build real projects and put them on Github.
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