Sans the boot camp, you're describing many self-taught developers, myself included. I was motivated to learn to code, and used the resources available — librar

Sans the boot camp, you're describing many self-taught developers, myself included. I was motivated to learn to code, and used the resources available — library, school computers, etc. — when a job turned me down because I know 8502 assembly but not 8086 assembly, I bought myself a cheap second hand, green screen PC and found a shareware assembler. The critical part was finding that first employer that would hire me with an unrelated degree, because that served as my apprenticeship. With one job on your resumé, the next is much easier Luck, via an acquisition, was what got me into Microsoft, and with one of the big companies on your resumé job switching can become almost trivial. The Sankey diagrams for my last 4 job changes are close to being straight lines