Started out teaching English at Embry-Riddle.
Graded 10,000 essays.
Lesson learned.
Became a mathematics teacher.
Discovered computing.
Never looked back.
Location
Houston TX
Education
Stetson University: B.A., M.A. in English; M.S. in mathematics
Having not been a developer your entire career may bring something good to the party.
But breaking in may be tough.
I was lucky. When 32, I was hoovered up (like thousands of others) by DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation). They relocated me from Florida to Marlboro MA, to get a rookie documentor. (Can you imagine?) It was easy, over time, to show that I should be a developer.
Maybe best to try an oblique path, through, say, documentation, testing, or customer service.
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Thirty+, shmirty+.
Having not been a developer your entire career may bring something good to the party.
But breaking in may be tough.
I was lucky. When 32, I was hoovered up (like thousands of others) by DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation). They relocated me from Florida to Marlboro MA, to get a rookie documentor. (Can you imagine?) It was easy, over time, to show that I should be a developer.
Maybe best to try an oblique path, through, say, documentation, testing, or customer service.