I was hired by Travelocity (many years ago) to be a designer. A few months in they had plenty of designers but couldn't hire front-end developers, so they made

I was hired by Travelocity (many years ago) to be a designer. A few months in they had plenty of designers but couldn't hire front-end developers, so they made me a developer. It wasn't a choice. If I wanted to stay employed I had to figure it out. After several military deployments and treating programming like a hobby for some open source projects I developed a talent for it. A talent a CS degree could never provide. I have seen several developers who thought they were awesome because they had a CS degree from a fancy school. They were very wrong. Programming is a skill. Skills take practice to develop. End of story. Most people are confused about the nature of education, especially CS students. Education is not trade school. Trade schools exist to get you started on a skill. Education exists to provide beneficial structured knowledge. If you are having trouble figuring this out I wouldn't hire you either.