I hope this stuff ends soon. I started out as a CS major in 1997 and stopped because I had a chance to pursue a music career. Though I spent alot of time on music I always kept software dev around when I needed to focus on something other than music. I hand coded the website for one of my bands a few years ago. I worked on a Django project for a friend to get some experience with it. I checked StackOverflow every now and then to see what was trending. But, now that I feel like I've accomplished the things I wanted to as a musician I want to shift to coding. I'll be 39 in a few days. Am I wasting my time?
// , “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness... but the monkey is serious because he itches."(No/No)
I suspect not. If you're a competent coder and can prove it, no one who wants to move up the ranks is going to ignore that. Whatever their bias toward other characteristics you have, there's often enough a greater bias toward getting shit done.
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I hope this stuff ends soon. I started out as a CS major in 1997 and stopped because I had a chance to pursue a music career. Though I spent alot of time on music I always kept software dev around when I needed to focus on something other than music. I hand coded the website for one of my bands a few years ago. I worked on a Django project for a friend to get some experience with it. I checked StackOverflow every now and then to see what was trending. But, now that I feel like I've accomplished the things I wanted to as a musician I want to shift to coding. I'll be 39 in a few days. Am I wasting my time?
I suspect not. If you're a competent coder and can prove it, no one who wants to move up the ranks is going to ignore that. Whatever their bias toward other characteristics you have, there's often enough a greater bias toward getting shit done.