[devoutsalsa]

There are a lot of careers with no formal training on-ramp. If demand for software engineers continues and there’s no practical way to get enough on the job experience, there will be plenty of self taught developers that grind long enough to get the experience they need. I became a software engineer at age 40. No one would take me seriously as a junior developer, so I just kept leveling up my skills until I could get a mid-level role at a company that was desperate enough to hire me.