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Sorry for going off a tangent here, but when you say you got a CS degree after being a mechanical and energy engineer, do you mean you went back to university for a full undergrad in CS? Or was that a Master’s?

I’ve been thinking of going back to school to go the opposite route (CS -> engineering, probably aerospace), but I have no idea how to go about it or how to estimate how much cash I need.

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I didn't actually go back to school for CS - I had a lot of CS classes in undergrad that gave me some of the OOP theory background, but after that has just been whatever I picked up on the job or to solve a problem on the side.

I also got a bit lucky when I was looking for my first fully-CS job in that my title was "automation engineer," so I was getting interest from recruiters thinking I was a _test_ automation engineer. That opened up the door, after that it was just sweet talking my way in and faking it till I made it, lol.

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