Community will probably hate my comment but that's what I did: I was in your shoes year ago. - I was finance controller in huge corporation - I started coding

Community will probably hate my comment but that's what I did: I was in your shoes year ago. - I was finance controller in huge corporation - I started coding in 2015 - Now I work as full stack developer What I did: 1. The hardest thing: I was working full time in finance and in the meantime I started on upwork (it was hard..) 1.1. I managed to use the upwork conctatcs to be freelancer on my own 1.2. I remove finance work from resume as I had 2 years of experience in different companies (The owners didn't had any issue to me putting this as a experience) 1.3. The resume was literaly written like that: Compan XYZ, Developer; Company XYC, Developer; <- I never metioned it was a freelancing contract... 2. I start applying for a jobs to test out my skills 2.1. I quickly learn how to solve coding test and what to say during interview (to be honest I learn more in this period than anything before) 2.2. I got some job proposals in start ups but never took it as the rates were very low. I had briliant idea.. 3. I use LinkedIn to conctact directly people and get job with rate I was dreaming about 4. I left the corpotation and I provide serivce to 2 different companies and I was never happier. (that was also hard the leaving process and constantly provide service) 5. 11 months later (nowadays) I still provide serive to 2 different companies but plan for 2023 is to be only on 1 contract and focus on family. It was a long journey but definitely worth it and I had to admit I had a great support from my wife. Imagine doing full time job and learn/ or do work in other times. I want to point out it was challenging but definitely worth it.