I started at 37 and got my first full time job a couple of months after I turned 38. I was a lawyer and hated it - now I love going to work every day.
But it wasn't easy. I was working full time in a demanding profession and I'm married with two kids under 5 years old. So basically I spent every free moment I had working on learning HTML/CSS/JavaScript. If my kids were asleep, I was coding. I basically had to burn the candle at both ends to make a career change happen but it's been worth totally worth it.
I got hired to write React but I work for a very small company so we all wear a lot of hats around here. Since I started in June of 2020, I've already learned Java and now I'm working on a new ML/AI project (so Python, here I come).
My only regret is that I didn't do this 10 years earlier.
But it wasn't easy. I was working full time in a demanding profession and I'm married with two kids under 5 years old. So basically I spent every free moment I had working on learning HTML/CSS/JavaScript. If my kids were asleep, I was coding. I basically had to burn the candle at both ends to make a career change happen but it's been worth totally worth it.
I got hired to write React but I work for a very small company so we all wear a lot of hats around here. Since I started in June of 2020, I've already learned Java and now I'm working on a new ML/AI project (so Python, here I come).
My only regret is that I didn't do this 10 years earlier.