I changed careers from a liberal arts path at 28 by going back to school in CS, audit/non-credit to try to focus on coding, and also took practical networking c

I changed careers from a liberal arts path at 28 by going back to school in CS, audit/non-credit to try to focus on coding, and also took practical networking classes at my local tech college. My area didn't have other quality training and online courses weren't cutting it. I took the first job that would hire me, moving about 1,500 miles with very little money and no family support. If I didn't have and make a good support network of friends, I would've been homeless because I was fully broke my first months. It took about 5 years to get established enough in support roles to start making real headway, but my career since has been relatively rewarding. I'm making more money but I'm also feeling a lot happier with the work that I'm doing. I came through that in a different time (mid/late-2000s, housing crisis, but greener fields in tech than now) and it scared the hell out of me, but the alternative fear was greater, that I'd be geographically and financially trapped. My advice is to be open, be social, be persistent, and above all be friendly. Even when you don't want to, even when it's hard. The connections I made in my first shitty underpaid startup tech-support job have been at least a small part of how I've gotten my last three jobs in tech. This is a very tight industry and the people you know in it can be, and become, unexpectedly powerful.