One interesting factor is learning the skill and acquiring the love. I know a smart guy who went to a Python bootcamp. He had coded in his spare time and buil

One interesting factor is learning the skill and acquiring the love. I know a smart guy who went to a Python bootcamp. He had coded in his spare time and built a simple chess program. So he was already familiar (if not proficient) in Python. Autodidacts miss so many things, but he knew that. He also had nascent perfectionism, a taste for quality and a curiosity about how it could be achieved. He aced the course, but also displayed social intelligence. After the course, they offered him a job as course manager: some admin duties, presenting occasionally, wrangling the experts, timetable for lectures/workshops, handling issues and also mentoring students who got stuck. He aced the manager role too and continued to code, but did not pick up hacker love. He tumbled around looking for jobs and ended-up in a different non-coding role in the tech industry - customer support and scaling various teams.