> 2) There are a shit-ton more well paying technical jobs that need coders than just software developer roles, expand your horizons. For sure, I was a "GeoData

> 2) There are a shit-ton more well paying technical jobs that need coders than just software developer roles, expand your horizons. For sure, I was a "GeoData Manager" at an oil company for a year. The job didn't have programming as a requirement, but I used Python to do my job, and I became super, super productive. After learning a lot about geometry and mapping, I could do a day's work in under an hour. It paid alright for the area, and I didn't have any other experience. I think there's a lot of analyst roles out there that someone with some programming experience could knock out of the park if they don't mind writing a lot of code to read/write Excel spreadsheets, or scrape data from the web, or do any number tasks like that.