Hey all
Im at a crossroads…
Between choosing an apprenticeship in software development (coding) and a career in environmental scienece
How do you think id level up for a career in coding? Would it give me delusions about computers? Is it stresful? Do you need an aptitude for it?
Please anyone in the know do discuss
Does anyone know about this career, or have expierience with it?
No career in coding though I do it as a hobby now, its fun is all I know.
Since no knowledge in environmental science cant compare.
I learned Basic and C when I was younger. Did not do it professionally though. Like A_B_C, it was just a hobby for me. I had hopes that I would be able to do something with it professionally eventually, but never got there.
Yes, it is.
Yes you do.
Hi @everhopeful
How stressful is it?
It can be very stressful. People breathing down your neck to fix things for a deadline etc.
Can’t keep up anymore with it… every time some new platform comes out and have to completely switch and learns something new. Once learned, another thing pops up and so on…
Can be ok, but cannot find the concentration anymore. Had a complete burnout from it, extreme stress.
I can make good code, but not with frameworks which they demand everywhere now. Frameworks are a new learning curve, and a lot of security risks involved and that is something I cannot get over. Besides learning a whole new framework only to be made redundant the next year is counterintuitive.
I don’t know, don’t see myself coding again. It’s a waste of my skill, but employers demand frameworks, which I know nothing about, only know that they are full of security risks and I write good quality code, not something rushed through a framework.
Mismatched constantly. So the resume gap grows.
Good luck if you decide a career in it.
Try a bit of coding for free first and see if you like the challenge.
Code academy is good to start with
Coding the one job where your skills are obsolete when you retire 
Thought about going stocking shelves, felt like a good job to me. Bit physical and less heady like coding.
I’m a software developer. There’s good money to be made in this trade. But the risk of burnout is so high… you need to start early, like when you’re 12, if you wanna become top level. Of course you can still succeed even if you start later, like I did (at 19). But you need to have a knack for it, and patience, lots and lots of patience: with changing requirements, changing languages and frameworks, and it can be quite fast paced.
Yes, the burnout is real… really ever changing technology landscape.
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