Software touches so many aspects of our lives now, you don't have to enter into a career as a software engineer to make it worth your while. An anecdotal examp

Software touches so many aspects of our lives now, you don't have to enter into a career as a software engineer to make it worth your while. An anecdotal example: my home is "smart", with connected light switches, fans and such. I could have spent a ton of money doing that buying premium components that are all part of one cohesive system. But I didn't, I saved money by buying from different systems and using Home Assistant to tie them all together. As user friendly as HA tries to be, "buy a Raspberry Pi and install this custom Linux distro" is a pretty intimidating pitch to a non-programmer. But someone who knew their way around would be happy doing so.