I got a friend that basically automated his job, the management was not pleased, and forced him to go back to doing it manually ... He managed to get another j

I got a friend that basically automated his job, the management was not pleased, and forced him to go back to doing it manually ... He managed to get another job. But figured out he wanted to work with actual software development, and it also seems to be a shortage of software developers. But it was virtually impossible to get a job without a degree or experience. So he's now at age 45 enrolling a five year university program to become an engineer on paper ...