I did this transition in my late 20s, and it changed my life for the better. It wasn’t easy; I wrote about it here some years ago (I’m now almost 40): http://je

I did this transition in my late 20s, and it changed my life for the better. It wasn’t easy; I wrote about it here some years ago (I’m now almost 40): http://jeremyraines.com/2015/12/20/the-road-to-in-demand-developer-the-crappy-parts.html http://jeremyraines.com/2015/12/20/the-road-to-in-demand-dev... There’s not a lot of concrete advice, more of a picture of how precarious it can be at the outset. It’s really about whether you really enjoy the work, so that you’re willing to keep trying when maybe you’ve expended what feels like a lot of effort, yet your mental picture of the career/life seems both distant and dissonant with your (lack of) feeling of mastery. In the end, for me, the doors were opened by meeting & working with/for the right people, but it was a grind to get to the point(s) where I could. Lastly, there will come a point, which is subjective and tricky to identify & act on, where you transition from “I need to take what I can get to learn and stay in the game” to “Nah, I’m not settling any more; I’ll turn down things that don’t seem like I can thrive as a result”