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What made you choose programming? The IT industry is in nearly as bad a state as aviation. Neither really recovered from 2001 (dotcom crash + 9/11).

Is there any way you can leverage your domain knowledge? Work in avionics or games/simulation?

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Why did I choose programming? Vin: It's like this fellow I knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him the same question, "Why?" Calver: And? Vin: He said, "It seemed like a good idea at the time." -The Magnificent Seven

Also, programming is likely to be around in a few hundred years. Programming is AI-hard. Few other lines of work are.

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