u/DayNormal8069 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I went first. I am a woman. My husband never finished college. None of us have STEM backgrounds. The “way” was called hard work and choosing a bootcamp with good placement rates. The privilege was the money to pay when loans were not possible. No argument it was a gold rush b
u/michaelnovati replied ·
You sound like a smart and hard working person who did it right. But there are people worked hard and cobbled together a job, only to get laid off 2 years later and be lost in what to do, unable to compete with FAANG layoffs and having a really hard time.
I can't speak to how many gold finders are in each of the two buckets I hope most would be in the success bucket, but it's certainly not an edge case to end up in the other.
Winning the lottery is one thing, keeping your winnings is another.
I don't know how many 4 year success story videos and posts I read that involve someone being laid off, and while they bounced back and made it, it's not just like you get the gold and game over!