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/michaelnovatireplied·
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.
u/Plane-Will-7795 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
So they shouldn’t try to land a better job because it’ll cost them $25k?
u/michaelnovatireplied·
One of the best bootcamps has like a 40% placement rate within 6 months of graduating and many people are spending that time full time preparing.
So it will cost $22.5K tuition + $25K opportunity cost but another 6 months of lower income, and even then you aren't likely to get a job.
Then you look at who the 40% is and most of the people have adjacent degrees or work experience (e.g. mechanical eng, data eng, analysts, accountants).
So yeah it's a lot more expensive and a non trivial 50/50 chance you're going to lose $50K