I had a coworker who was a Disney World character, voiceover actor, and then a flight attendant before going to a coding bootcamp. 12 weeks in a bootcamp and sh

I had a coworker who was a Disney World character, voiceover actor, and then a flight attendant before going to a coding bootcamp. 12 weeks in a bootcamp and she was a solid junior frontend developer. I think that path is very achievable for a lot of people. I'm not sure if it is possible to take that route and go directly into distributed systems engineering, machine learning, or architecture, but depending on what "get involved in software" there are lots of paths from no experience to entry level.