>There are a lot of really shitty software engineers out there. That doesn't mean you'll get hired as one. Especially in the current market. There's a lot of s

>There are a lot of really shitty software engineers out there. That doesn't mean you'll get hired as one. Especially in the current market. There's a lot of shitty politicians out there, that doesn't mean anyone can just become a politician. >Competent machinists require an extremely similar set of problem-solving skills as competent software engineers. Every job has some critical thinking aspects to it, even landscaping and construction workers, crane operators, truck drivers, etc that doesn't mean everyone wants to code, or can be a productive programmer. I have plenty of friends form technical university, mostly mechanical engineers, who did everything they could to avoid getting into SW development because they just don't like it and they weren't good at it.