My degree was in music, but I dabbled in tech courses too - calculus, discrete math, logical circuits, just because I liked those classes. I took a workshop on

My degree was in music, but I dabbled in tech courses too - calculus, discrete math, logical circuits, just because I liked those classes. I took a workshop on C but hated it. I didn't like programming until the internet became a thing. I learned some perl as a student, on my own from reading the book and trying things out. My first job out of college was as a network administrator. Hated it. Second job involved some programming. I learned php and database programming on my own. I later learned java, scala, akka, node, and react on the job (all on projects transitioning away from php). After the first job or two, no one asks or cares about school education level. I'm a principle software architect now, the job is fine. Bullshit and politics are low, and it's always fun to solve a problem. Fall in love with an uber-ambitious technical side project that you'll never turn into a business but that will make you learn every tech you'd ever be interested in. Then you can tinker on it for life and it'll keep you employable.