I kind of tend to agree. I have been a professional developer for about 3 years now. I am 100% self taught. I think I have a natural knack for the field as ever

I kind of tend to agree. I have been a professional developer for about 3 years now. I am 100% self taught. I think I have a natural knack for the field as ever since I was able to read I have been constantly absorbing information about physics and chemistry. I worked as an auto mechanic for a few years and then I moved into industrial fluid process design. After that I landed a job with a (really shitty)web development agency. Now I work under contract for a startup(1099). I really believe that my passion for science and my previous work experience prepared me to deal with all of the complex technical expertise required to be a competent developer. Not everyone can be so lucky. I have tried to explain basic computer hardware/software concepts to some friends of mine on many occasions. Some of them are right on board with what I'm talking about immediately while others are either completely uninterested or unable to grok the concepts. Usually the ones who grok it are people who already work in technical fields like my buddy who works in machining, or my other buddy who does welding, or my other buddy who is a market analyst(just helped him learn Python for data analysis). Not everyone can be a competent developer, and that's OK. There are many other positions within a tech company that are just as important, like project leads or designers.