I may have the opportunity to go to a 4 month coding bootcamp free of charge (normally they are like $10-15k). I would be receiving severance and unemployment so financially I can afford to do it without any stress.
I would love to work for a healthcare tech startup and eventually (5 or so years from now) start my own company. I am a bit of a Luddite but I have done some basic coding on CodeAcademy. My aim is just to understand technology and software engineering better and develop some basic coding skills. I know a coding bootcamp won't make me a real SWE.
My sister @NotFrozenYetStillChosen is against it because she thinks ChatGPT will make any basic coding skills obsolete and if I do a SWE course then that sort of funnels me into that line of employment. She also thinks I can develop the skills I'm seeking on my own & that any startup is more focused on the team you bring. If I want to be a CEO/founder I should learn more business. She's very successful and knows business stuff so her opinion is pretty informed.
I do think she has a point but I'm still very drawn to this. My knowledge of technology is embarrassingly inadequate yet I find it so interesting….computers are like magic.
My other option is to get another big pharma job & pocket the severance as a bonus.
What do the nerds here advise? Especially the business nerds.
Edit: thank you business nerds, I will finish my project management certification instead and learn tech things on my own!!!
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People have been threatening to automate me out of my job(s) since before I even began doing them.
I still have said jobs, so it could be that the promise of automation will not sneak up on you in this decade. If you have nothing better to do with your time, it isn't a terrible option. Especially if that's how you like to learn. I learned2code on my own but I think most people would prefer the class option. If you love to make things and if you're creative, then at least it won't be a waste. It's okay to do things because you're interested in how things work.
Otoh you could take your severance pay and just spend the next 6 months drinking and doing drugs.
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Coding gets automated all the time. Every year, there are more menial tasks that frameworks can handle or IDEs will generate. That just means your time is spent on the shit frameworks or ai can't do which is plenty.
Coding is going to be the very last office job that will be fully automated.
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Only people threathened by automation are talentless hacks
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