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A comment on Ask HN: Would you quit your six figure, promising career path to learn to code?.

Re:Ask HN: Would you quit your six figure, promising career ... by djloche on Monday March 19, 2012 @07:36PM (#3726952)
No. You should learn to code in your free time, then leverage your new skills to get a promotion and raise. Contribute to open source projects and build mvp style learning projects.

If you are still serious about changing careers, keep working the day job and save back as much money as you can while reaching out to headhunters/startups/etc. Don't quit your job until you have accepted an offer from another company and have a solid 6+ months cash reserve. Don't burn any bridges.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you quit your six figure, promising career ... by gamechangr on Monday March 19, 2012 @07:46PM (#3726996)
I have more than six months for sure. I'm confident I wouldn't run out of money, but may regret leaving a high paying job. thanks for the feedback (guess I should have given a little more information)
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Re:Ask HN: Would you quit your six figure, promising career ... by kls on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @01:49AM (#3728010)
My recommendation would be if you truly want to program, then learn to program and use your learning in your domain. Solution for problems that arise in that domain and see if they can become products. To me this is the safest and most effective path to not starting over completely.
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