[axbytg]

When it works, it works. Myself and a friend started learning programming at the same time, both with the goal of switching careers. I worked in tech in sales, he had a job translating subtitles. He did a bootcamp, I taught myself. I'm finally on my first job as a SWE at a tiny startup with no funding, making a little less than I was in sales. He has been promoted 3 times to engineering manager at a well established international company with $xx,xxx,xxx in funding, and just bought a house. Maybe don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.