I was a bit of a late bloomer when it comes to career, and the beginning was very challenging to land my first junior developer position. I'll never forget the

I was a bit of a late bloomer when it comes to career, and the beginning was very challenging to land my first junior developer position. I'll never forget the guy who hired me commenting something along the lines of "it's unfortunate you didn't start earlier, you could've gone so much further", or something similar. He ended up being a great mentor, but that comment always bothered me and is the thing I remember most about him. Now several years later and I'm very happy where I'm at. And I've come to the realization, if I had gone directly into CS in college, there is a fairly good chance I may have gotten burned out by now and moved on to something completely different. So the "right on time" idea resonates with me, but YMMV.