Trying to do something new with my life that is future proof and I can make good money with.
Since i'm on computers all day everyday since I was a kid, why not do something related to that?
Though, I heard that you can just learn most stuff online without college, so I was wondering if going and paying was worth it.
The course I was looking at would be the online version.
Anyone do this or think it's worth it?

I'm honestly gonna look into a few things. I was even looking at taking a massage therapy course. Seems like it would be legit to have your own spot and charge ppl like $100 an hour. Stress free.

What say you misc?

If you had the ability (time) to study something and the money to do it, what would you take right now?

"software engineering" as a course will only be processes/practices companies employ to build software. you won't learn any actual programming/hard skills


it's mostly bs that you would pick up a lot faster with real experience as an intern or on an actual job. If you want to become a software engineer and go to school for it you need to study computer science.

Vouched

1st of all OP programming is a lifestyle not a career. You need to have a certain type of brain otherwise youll get burnt out REAL quick.

2nd of all, dont go to college for this srs. There are coding bootcamps you can go to instead for like $5k and you dont pay tuition until they find you a job. Or you can be self taught, but youll also need your own website portfolio showing projects that you made like on fiverr etc. Projects matter more than degree on resume 100$ srs.

After that youll prob want to spend a lot of time practicing and researching interviews and technicals. Every company now is trying to act like faang and have you do a project before hire srs.

If youre stressed now, it only gets worse working at an understaffed deadline crunched company.

Gl op

Edit:

^^^ might be better to follow this advice. I've been out of it for a looong time.

My first degree was software engineering and I wish I stuck with it. That was over a decade ago and it's only become more in demand. I would already be making the money I want by now and think the biggest mistake I made in my adult life was leaving that industy. But who really knows how it's gonna turn out in the end.

I would suggest getting into a program if you find the course interesting after taking it. Sometimes it's more efficient to learn formally than on the job, and sometimes it ain't. Depends on the person.

If you have no experience in programming then I might suggest getting a book and setting up the relevant infrastructure on your PC, and doodling around for a bit. If you like it, you could create your own project, whether it's a database to record your workouts, a simple to-do list app, or something else semi-useful. This might give you a good indication of whether you enjoy it, before you spend any further time and money on it.

I think though, being a software engineer is a bit like being a doctor. I would imagine you don't just wake up one morning and decide it's what you want to do. But I could be wrong. There's no harm in finding out.Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I work in software, but there are probably choices I could have made within my career to earn more money than I am now. Also after 20 years, whilst I still love my job, there is that niggling feeling that perhaps I should have done something completely different from the very start.