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submitted 1 week ago by hungrythirstyhorny to c/[email protected]

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im 29 yo. recently lose my job, and thinking about use some of my saving money to school for programming, for the sake of not being homeless, but idk consider of my age, will it helps me in the future to survive if i have a degree on programming.

pardon my english

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I did a "game design" school when I was younger, but couldn't get a job as a programmer. Worked for a laboratory for a little over a year, and then went back to school to get a software engineering degree. I was 28 when I went into it, worked with "youngsters" of 18 years and older. It was completely fine.

I'm now 50k in debt, but I'm also making twice as much as I did with my minimally paying job at the laboratory. It's going to be a boon in the long run, IMO.

Then, luck should be taken into account. Once you are done with your degree, perhaps the market will have recovered a bit, because I'm hearing a lot of negative feedback lately.

edit: If you're not sure, you can take a peek at this graph of free MIT YouTube courses. Choose something interesting on the right, then figure out where to start on the left to get to your chosen point. Each course can easily take about 100 hours, which sounds a lot, but if you do them you can take that knowledge and more easily extrapolate information in the future.

[–] hungrythirstyhorny 1 points 1 week ago

sorry my english is very bad, but what im digest from ur comments is there is a luck included to get a job in programming,, am i right?

ill look into it tonight for sure

thanks a lot sir..

pardon my english