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I buy it. Two of my most blue collar friends just made the jump. One a mechanic the other a deli worker, via bootcamps in their late-20s. Neither hated their j
by red_hare 8y ago
I buy it.
Two of my most blue collar friends just made the jump. One a mechanic the other a deli worker, via bootcamps in their late-20s. Neither hated their jobs, but they also couldn’t afford to move out of their parents houses on those incomes.
For now, they seem to be doing “blue collar” programming work. Mostly freelance basic front-end and rails development. The question to me is if they broaden their scope into other specialties and how quickly that happens. That’ll be my indicator to how long my own overpaid salary might last.
- throwanem 8y agoThe people I know who've done the same are broadening pretty quick. Makes me glad I've been putting so much of my own overpaid salary into savings: 'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.'
- InGodsName 8y agoMy girlfriend who is nurse basically by training, took bootcamp and now she makes react frontend + Prototype in Sketch which is what she really enjoys. She told me this area of work is really good as you can learn from YouTube and put it to practise right away without worrying about that you'd screw up.