My story has some similarities to Kristina's, but I didn't I get to choose when I switched. I went from being a "Flash" designer/developer, which I loved, to be

My story has some similarities to Kristina's, but I didn't I get to choose when I switched. I went from being a "Flash" designer/developer, which I loved, to being unemployed and drowning in debt, to physically moving to another city, to going to a bootcamp. Fortunately I am stable now. The hard part is how 15 years of prior experience is mostly wiped out. It makes for a colorful background, but largely ignored. Recruiters called it "soft skills" when you have corporate experience, but it's not directly applicable to software development.