A CS degree is not a pre-requisite to working in the tech industry or as a technologist. You should probably concentrate on learning enough programming to be d

A CS degree is not a pre-requisite to working in the tech industry or as a technologist. You should probably concentrate on learning enough programming to be dangerous. This is possible with about 5~10 weeks of dedicated work (apparently, based on the experience of people whom I find credible reporting their experience hiring graduates of coding bootcamps) or in about a year or so of self-study by someone bright and motivated (I know numerous examples of this). You'll gain a lot in your first few years of work in terms of seasoning, going into more depth on some of the many subfields in every tech segment, rounding out your technical skills, and learning soft skills and other value enhancers, but you can do all of that learning while getting paid professional wages as opposed to paying for additional credentialing. The combination of business skills -- even skills which strike you as so basic that they barely deserve the word "skill" -- plus the ability to program is an extraordinarily powerful one, by the way. It is almost unseemly how many hundreds of thousands of dollars are sitting behind projects which could be banged out for roughly the same technical complexity as the "Build a blog in 15 minutes" Ruby on Rails demo.