u/silotough wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I’m ~10 years in. Bootcamp was a better investment than my bachelors. If you love the work, keep grinding, you’ll get there. If you don’t, look for tech adjacent roles. Technical PMs are worth their weight in gold
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I'm not doubting your specific situation, but in general I think it's really hard for most people to say which path is better, since they can only experience one, the other, or both in one order.
The software industry people can make 10 to 100X more if they are exceptional, so people making say $200K after 10 years, might have made millions of dollars through a different route - most wouldn't but I know a number of people as friends and acquaintances that made 7, 8, 9, 10+ (i.e. billionaires) figures and I'm friends with a couple of billionaires too, and if there is any pattern it's that they all got extremely lucky in choosing amongst opportunities made available to them because of their CS programs at Stanford, Harvard, CMU, MIT.
Again, the right call for you is not the right call for everyone, and I'm glad the bootcamp worked out for you, but there is a lot more to the decision than just bootcamp VS CS degree.