u/Faw__100 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Definitely a big, huge YESSS. Listen, I'm just gonna say one thing and I need you to focus real close on it. In the absolute worse case scenario, where you'd never land a programming job, you'd still be much better off than the version of yourself who doesn't know how do code
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Opportunity cost. It's one of the things that prevent socio economic status jumping. Rich people value it primarily and people living pay check to pay check value it at $0.
Programming skills are really abstract thinking skills that can apply to a lot of jobs, but still need to value your time.
If take a 12 hour a day 14 week cours = 1000 hour course and I would get paid $25 an hour in construction (avg california from goolging) = $25000 of lost income to do this course.