Author touches a number of things but two messages resonate loudly: - accessible != easy - having the hard work done for you != easy The “easy” myth was larg

Author touches a number of things but two messages resonate loudly: - accessible != easy - having the hard work done for you != easy The “easy” myth was largely started by bootcamps trying to make an easy buck (NPI). More power to them, because clearly a lot of graduates were happy with their program and the career it unlocked. But working on hard problems- often the foundational pieces that make the “easy” stuff easy - is a different ball game. I spent the last 15 years of my career as an engineering manager type role, and the people who shone the most were the physics PhDs, electrical engineers, mathematicians that had changed careers, and the people who had for example worked on early home computing (where your computer crashed multiple times a day). We made it a point not to hire from bootcamps and rarely new grads - not because of gatekeeping, but we had much more success paying 50-100% more for a hard science candidate.