u/Shurashi22 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
The psychology of marketing is truly crazy. People should just self study and pay somebody (a developer with real experience in enterprise software) once a month to create a curriculum for them and check up on them. So like what, 1500 bucks a month a month and you need to discipl
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Yeah my stance on this is:
1. That there is indeed ALL the free material in the world you can find on your own to self study. There is actually TOO MUCH, and that's why programs of all kinds (not just bootcamps, but even like a $20 udemy course) exist to kind of set a pathway through the mess.
How much is the pathway for you? That's up to you to decide.
2. Return on investment. Paying for a bootcamp is an investment and not a transaction. You should be getting that value back, ideally in the job you get afterwards, but it could also be in your time savings, or by you learning something permanently you just couldn't learn on your own.
Could you get a higher return by doing things on your own? Maybe, but if you get a return via the bootcamp than you can't complain.
If you don't feel like you got a return, and that happens to most people, that's when the bootcamp has problems.