I was a law student who got sick of legal practice, and found my passion for programming through luck. I actually wrote a reflective blog piece on my journey recently if anyone is interested - https://medium.com/@fabianterh/celebrating-1-year-as-a-softw...
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(It's not paywalled and I don't earn a single cent, so I hope this isn't against the rules)