I was working in manufacturing after getting a degree focused on quality assurance & management. I started to hate the work and the fact that my employment was

I was working in manufacturing after getting a degree focused on quality assurance & management. I started to hate the work and the fact that my employment was dependent on a large company in a field that was moving outside the US. Ive always been really fascinated by computers. I'd built plenty of them but never got into the software side and had no idea how it worked. I started teaching myself on the job by starting projects that I could accomplish by programming. That was 2 years ago, now I am on a datascience team doing my work in python. I started teaching myself when I was late 20s.