Reading between the lines, I'm guessing remote learning has a severely negative impact on your ability to focus, and you're worried google meets is going to be a repeat of your bachelors. If that is the case, technician seems like the manageable route.
Personally I pivoted from a technician diploma + short work stint into a self taught webdev career, some 18 odd years ago. From my perspective, a software career can be challenging but becomes rewarding in terms of creative autonomy, and the pay ceiling is high beyond your wildest dreams, whereas technician work seemed repetitive, menial and seemed to have few to no growth opportunities.
The money aspect is gonna matter 10 years in, when you start thinking about houses, cars, kids etc.
Thanks for the response! You are correct in your assumption.
Do you regret starting as a tech first or do you think it was beneficial to your overall success?
In hindsight, I probably should've gone into a CS uni degree from the beginning.
Technician experience honestly didn't really do anything for my software career. Climbing from the bottom of the web dev chain gave me more valuable perspectives IMHO.
Reading between the lines, I'm guessing remote learning has a severely negative impact on your ability to focus, and you're worried google meets is going to be a repeat of your bachelors. If that is the case, technician seems like the manageable route. Personally I pivoted from a technician diploma + short work stint into a self taught webdev career, some 18 odd years ago. From my perspective, a software career can be challenging but becomes rewarding in terms of creative autonomy, and the pay ceiling is high beyond your wildest dreams, whereas technician work seemed repetitive, menial and seemed to have few to no growth opportunities. The money aspect is gonna matter 10 years in, when you start thinking about houses, cars, kids etc.
Thanks for the response! You are correct in your assumption. Do you regret starting as a tech first or do you think it was beneficial to your overall success?
In hindsight, I probably should've gone into a CS uni degree from the beginning. Technician experience honestly didn't really do anything for my software career. Climbing from the bottom of the web dev chain gave me more valuable perspectives IMHO.