Is this really realistic: self-taught programmer?
So I'm 31, and decided to change careers. I was previously an engineer (not CS), and did well @ a small company, made and saved money, and now I make about 60k per year after tax from my invested money. I live off about 2.5k per month, but can probably live off less, so I'm still saving money per year, but not making any money other than my investments. I made about 20k worth of angel investments via angel.co, so hopefully I win the lottery there, but I'm not planning on it. I have always tooled around with computers, but I'm nowhere near an expert, nor have I ever been a coder. I am currently taking the one month rails course, and also considering something like LPTHW or similar, with the main goal in mind to just make prototypes, then hire the real talent if I get something going. I don't expect to get hired as a dev, but what about getting work or consulting f
Why it failed
So I'm 31, and decided to change careers. I was previously an engineer (not CS), and did well @ a small company, made and saved money, and now I make about 60k per year after tax from my invested money. I live off about 2.5k per month, but can probably live off less, so I&#x
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- beginagain
- Ended
- 2013
- Source
- hackernews