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I’m looking to change careers into tech at 43. I’ve been a teacher my whole life but education is…just not a good job anymore. I’m very interested in data science and would love to end up working on climate modeling but I’m practical and understand that I should take what I can get. Anyone have some career wisdom they’d be willing to share?
I did the same at about 43. Had some tech support background and could talk the talk, so that helped.
Got no solid advice, except to so it doable. And don't let anyone tell you coding is a "young man's game". That held me back for years. We got coders of all ages, beginners to near retirement.
That’s so good to hear!
If you're going into programming or the like, you'll want to build a portfolio of little projects you've done that you can explain (in detail) to the tech guys at the interview. In some ways, programming can be like art...you need to show examples of your past work.
Be patient. It takes time to "get going".
If you know how to program, you're in a good spot. If you don't know how to program, start with fundamentals.
SICP is good. It's Lisp. You'll probably never write a line of Lisp professionally, but it will help shape how you reason about solving problems.
Develop some solid fundamentals.