Why do you suspect that? Having talked with over 200 of them, I'd suggest that just like people in most career training programs, there's something about the j

Why do you suspect that? Having talked with over 200 of them, I'd suggest that just like people in most career training programs, there's something about the job (as they imagine it) that attracts them relative to other jobs. "Huh, that looks like a good job, and I suspect I can do it, maybe I should invest some time and money into finding out!" I don't think anyone thinks it's a get-rich-quick plan; no one expects it to be easy. And if they do think that, they revise their estimates on the first day of bootcamp. But many of them DO suspect that as a career, coding pays well relative to the amount of work it is, and has good growth prospects. I too believe that, so I'm sympathetic to their perspective, although I doubt it's the BEST career in those aspects (I hear trades are really quite lucrative). The degree of "passion" for various particular aspects of the career is variable (e.g. desire to do the act of coding, e.g. desire to produce software, e.g. desire to work in startups, e.g. desire to make mad bank, e.g. desire to have flexible working conditions, e.g. desire to get paid to do math). Few of them have had wildly successful careers in other domains (I believe that between 1% and 3% of my sample were already making six figures in another career), so the majority are hoping that this will be their successful career. In summary, it is true that all of them expect that learning to code might be somewhat economically productive, but your phrasing is condescending and nasty. Don't be nasty. Disclaimer: I have a vested interest in bootcamps being at least somewhat successful.