[thwllms]

Based on personal experience, I can't recommend this enough. My original background is in civil and environmental engineering; I discovered my love of programming after I'd been working as a civil engineer for a little while, automating GIS tasks. After that I fell deep down the rabbit hole and found a job as a full-time software developer at age 30. Now I'm back in the civil / environmental industry, but with several years of real world software engineering experience. It's paying off in a big way. I'm not the best programmer, and I'm not the best civil engineer, but I have more experience in both of those things than anyone else I know. Gives me a big leg up in a pretty niche area.