u/cc_apt107 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I think a critical thing to understand here is that I would do their part time immersive and not give up my current job. I would not leave this role until I had a new one lined up. Thus there would be no period of unemployment. This also makes a longer job search more tolerable t
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
If you have really good data-engineering experience to talk about, you should highly look into some career accelerator options like [Formation.dev](https://Formation.dev) (I'm the co-founder), Outco, Pathrise, Interview Kickstart, etc... These options are more part-time. Formation is completely scheduled around your availability. Most people we work with have day jobs and take about 6ish months to find a new job. If you have decent fundamentals already, transitioning to a SWE, or at least a SWE-like-data role is feasible at Formation at least. I can't speak to the other options for this, e.g. Pathrise is focused more on staying in the same vertical, but maybe Scalar would be useful too. Anyways look at these options as well to compare and constrast.