Maybe I'm asking for too much money? 90k/yr.
I want to switch from Engineering(120k/yr) to programming, but I've been unable.
SE Michigan.
For those coming into the industry from outside, the real questions may be less about what you're capable of programming, and more about your wisdom in producing code that works well with other code and with the realities of failure. It's hard enough to get a good sense of how much of that wisdom you have even when you are a software engineer...
There's also the fact that most jobs are looking for exact matches rather than someone smart enough to get up to speed on their tech stack. So they want to see X years with Y technology. If you're coming from a different field it can be hard to check those boxes.
I’m finally about to jump to a big tech company but up until now I worked for a small company on the east coast and don’t have a blog or any public projects on GitHub.