[alekq]

Thank you very much for this! I am sorry that I did not know about it sooner.

Anyway the question for HN - is it too "late" for a person to consider career change in 33? To clarify, I am not in IT business, my formal education (and job) is in business administration, however with recent and important changes in my private and work life, I am considering to bite the bullet. Initially, I considered back-end development, but actually Linux sysadmin might be more appropriate for me.

[onenite]

Not too late. Professional experience in anything technical/analytical/complex would keep your mind adaptive enough to deal with computer systems and work effectively with others.

On that note, programmers used to consist of mathematicians, engineers, and scientists, until there was a growing shortage of programmers, at which point project managers, accountants, and other comparable professionals trained to become programmers. [1]

1. The Future of Programming - Uncle Bob Martin https://youtu.be/BHnMItX2hEQ

[yes_man]

You are 33 years old. Consider how long your whole life has lasted since you were born. If you retire at 66, you still have another 33 years of career left. If you enjoy computers you don't need to stop at retirement age either. Plenty time for a career change, go for it :)

[whoknew1122]

I made the decision to change careers into IT when I was 32-ish. Did self-study for a year, and then worked as a junior sysadmin at a SaaS company for a year. Now I work at AWS.

It's definitely doable, and becoming more and more common (at least from the candidates and initiatives I see at AWS).

[Geeek]

Do you mind briefly discussing how you made the switch? What courses did you take etc? I am considering switching into IT and would love to hear how others did it. I am currently enrolled in the Google IT course.

[lxe]

Same answer as "is it too "late" for a person to consider career change in 22?"

Make sure it's a career in something you actually like and can foresee to some degree of confidence that you can continue being interested in, and honing your skill in, for a while.

[reallydontask]

We've got a junior devops chap that is in his late 30s and has never worked in IT, so it's possible

[PuffinBlue]

I'm 35 and am about 9 months I to a new job as a trainee System Administrator. You can do it.

[411111111111111]

Ive started my career as a sysadmin basically and would just like to throw on a tiny remark: inherint to the job is being available 24/7 in case something goes wrong in the live platform. It's not necessarily bad, it's just something you should keep in mind

[celticninja]

Nope. I got my first trainee developer role at 37/38. 4 years later and I earn double what I did before I started being a developer and there is pretty much zero chance of me getting that much more in my old role, definitely not in 4 years.

[Geeek]

Do you mind briefly discussing how you made the switch? What courses did you take etc? I am considering switching into IT and would love to hear how others did it. I am currently enrolled in the Google IT course.

[celticninja]

I applied for a trainee role in my current organisation, no coding experience required they wanted people with business knowledge and to train them up. Took a pay cut to start too. They offered training courses and I did a lot of study myself. I was doing a degree level apprenticeship, which I started 3 years in, but it actually wasn't very good. Lots of self learning and pluralsight, udemy courses. I have collegaues who went the route of coding bootcamps and were successful in getting junior roles.

[BBergdahl]

I switched to IT at 40. Doable. But Swede so a lot of options like paid paternity leave, tuition free university and so on made it easier.

[peter_retief]

If you do some formal training for a few months you should be fine. If possible get someone to sponsor you.

[pletnes]

I worked in non-it but programming-is-useful roles until age 35. Now I’m a sw developer. I don’t particularly recommend for or against as it’s a personal choice after all. But feasible, yes absolutely.

[atmosx]

Absolutely not impossible, if you like Linux, etc - go for it!

[wilsonrocks]

I switched from being a math teacher and union official to web developer at 35 and have loved it!