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It's hard to say from afar, of course, but I believe you are not only hirable, but potentially a very valuable employee. Writing skill is a big plus, even if many people (including HR people) don't realize that immediately. Psychology can be valuable, as well, especially if you find a tech field to "dock on". Maybe some user experience stuff or so? Security (social engineering)? I don't know, but it would be a shame to totally abandon that amount of knowledge. The problem is, as you have realized, that it takes effort on the hiring manager's part to correctly evaluate your potential value to the company. Write your resume more in the direction of cross-disciplinary projects, show the (very different) things you've done of your own accord. And (although this may be very tricky to do, depending on your personality) don't go into it as a supplicant competing with recent university graduates. Paint yourself a career changer, a bit apart from the masses. Still, hiring tends to be conservative, so I wouldn't want to give you high hopes of immediate success. Depending on the time frame you're contemplating, maybe use your writing skills and curiosity, paired with technical skills, to impress people. Julia Evans (http://jvns.ca/), for example, is much admired here on HN. I don't know her backstory, from my point of view she simply showed up one day with an interesting blog post, then another, then another. And while all of those blog posts are kind of basic, maybe even boring, to people who are deep in whatever she's writing about, she managed to write about lots of different subjects competently, gaining lots of respect and job offers, IIRC. |