Agree with this. Domain knowledge is pretty useful in programming. Coding is simply translating human language into computer language. Having some other domai

Agree with this. Domain knowledge is pretty useful in programming. Coding is simply translating human language into computer language. Having some other domain that interests you is pretty helpful. I was into {cars, music, movies, video games, comics, architecture, sports, etc}. I studied and took the exam for Real Estate sales. After a company I worked at had a security incident, I studied up and started applying my weekend time towards HackerOne (freelance security penetration testing) -- that helped me land a job at a security software company.