I'm 28 and frustrated – can I still have programming career?

Re:I'm 28 and frustrated – can I still have programming career? by necavi on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @10:24PM (#8112142)

Not very helpful but personally I'm in a very similar situation - I've always worked on programming since I was a kid but never had the opportunity to get a degree and every single programming job in my area requires at minimum a 2 year CS degree, so I took a job as an industrial electrician which unfortunately means throwing out almost all of the knowledge that I've worked my entire life for.

I'd be very interested to see what others have to say about this, I doubt if it is a very uncommon problem at the moment.

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Re:I'm 28 and frustrated – can I still have programming career? by ramigb on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @11:45PM (#8112365)

tl;dr just go for it, don't care for the requirements, impress them.

Why i'm saying this? well ...

I don't have a CS degree, matter of fact i dropped out of university, i got hired three times as a developer in three different companies with a very good salary (compared to Palestine standards, since i live in Palestine), i switched jobs because i hated working for someone, so the last job i quit i decided to start my own startup, and now i am into a lot of programming projects.

I program in Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, C#, ActionScript, Java, and i play with other languages, i taught my self all that, so my friend you can do this and even do better, jut believe in your skills.

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Re:I'm 28 and frustrated – can I still have programming career? by comatory on Thursday July 31, 2014 @12:00AM (#8112395)

Read your whole answer, thanks. I decided I'm gonna go for it no matter what.

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