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Discussion on: Did you transition to tech from another career?

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Mat Borowiak

I started my career as Architect after uni, supricingly after 5 years of studying that was not my thing.
Firstly I shifted my career to become a 3D Artist as making 3D graphics was my hobby and it paid well at the time. 4 years later Im sitting here as Senior 3D Artist, and about 2 months ago I decided to transition again to become a full time frontend dev. I shifted my career drasticly once, I can do that twice.
Why programming? There are plenty of job offers, it was always quite easy to learn programming languages for me personally, and I feel similiar pleasure working on software compared to making 3D (and maybe playing games?) - its this childish satisfaction feeling when you tell your pc (give input) to do something and it does, and you can see that and you can interract with that on your screen in real time. Amazing. Also I feel like the tech industry will be still growing for years, so I have no good reason to not become a developer.