FWIW I've worked with quite a few software developers who have no degree. All of them have good jobs, some very good
You are not trapped, you're in a rut.
I'm 48, and 35 seems young enough to do pretty much anything
You are not trapped, you're in a rut.
I'm 48, and 35 seems young enough to do pretty much anything
That's not entirely true, I have been trying to learn Atari BASIC (vintage computer fan, 8-bit Ataris are my interest) but it's slow going. It's more like feeling stupid and growling at my PVM. I do not think like a machine. I'd have better luck writing a sonnet from a can of alphabet spaghetti than I would writing a meaningful bit of code.
People tend to forget HN is more than programmers.