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Career change from therapist → software engineer: Looking for fast, remote bootcamps with job support. Best coding bootcamps for a fast, remote transition into software engineering?

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u/michaelnovati replied ·
Preparing will take 1+ year at least. Even CIRR - the only reporting agency left, loosened it's standards to show placements within a year of graduating, and the best programs were sitting at 60-70% back in the 2023 times (with no newer data released yet, but anecdotally worse) So if you sign up today to start in a month 1 month + 3 months + 12 months and you have like a 60% chance of getting a job by then at the best bootcamps. So it's possible but if you don't have this time horizon you might be one of the people who doesn't get placed.

u/MundaneValuable7 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Small world, I'm a former software engineer looking to career change to a therapist in 2-3 months. Any recommendations? Not interested in any formal education and require something with a job guarantee that will let me travel the world while making 6 figures minimum. Willing t

u/michaelnovati replied ·
A though experiment, u/doyureadme If someone said they were an engineer and want to become a therapist in 3 months the answer would be that this is crazy because of licensing etc... Let's say the person doesn't need that and is allowed to, so they do it. Would you as a customer want to go to a therapist that has 3 months of training and no licensing or certification? The answer is no. Or maybe if the cost is cheap enough. But you wouldn't pay this person the same as licensed/certified one. The bootcamp illusion is over. It CAN work in some cases but those are edge cases for people with tangential experience transition into tangential roles. E.g. sales person at tech company becoming a 'sales engineer'.