General geek who has never worked in a tech role but always gravitated towards tech based projects (website builds, system implementation and validation etc) so looking to maybe pivot careers one day!
I'm in a similar situation, age 42 working in healthcare but considering a pivot of career into tech.
I've done bits of HTML, VB, Python etc over the years (as in dabbled here and there for various projects as I've always been interested and gravitated to tech-focussed projects at work.)
I've now enrolled on a full stack engineer career track course via Codecademy so I can study in my spare time. It may come to nothing or I may be able to make the jump, only time will tell I guess. The big selling point in interviews will be the soft skills I can bring to a role - working in teams, managing teams, project management, problem solving skills etc and its those I will likely focus on during an interview.
The tech field is constantly changing so I get the impression everyone is constantly learning as new frameworks come out or new technologies come along. (Spare a thought for iOS developers who get the rug pulled from under them every year when Apple release the next version of the OS and change all the underlying architecture!!) so coming in "late" to the tech party may not be as much of a disadvantage as we think (or that's what I'm telling myself!!)
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I'm in a similar situation, age 42 working in healthcare but considering a pivot of career into tech.
I've done bits of HTML, VB, Python etc over the years (as in dabbled here and there for various projects as I've always been interested and gravitated to tech-focussed projects at work.)
I've now enrolled on a full stack engineer career track course via Codecademy so I can study in my spare time. It may come to nothing or I may be able to make the jump, only time will tell I guess. The big selling point in interviews will be the soft skills I can bring to a role - working in teams, managing teams, project management, problem solving skills etc and its those I will likely focus on during an interview.
The tech field is constantly changing so I get the impression everyone is constantly learning as new frameworks come out or new technologies come along. (Spare a thought for iOS developers who get the rug pulled from under them every year when Apple release the next version of the OS and change all the underlying architecture!!) so coming in "late" to the tech party may not be as much of a disadvantage as we think (or that's what I'm telling myself!!)