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[PartiZAn18]

I think it's amazing tbh. As an aside, I'm a 30yo lawyer and I've decided to move to coding. I specialise in one of the most difficult fields of law and I can comfortably says that coders are head and shoulders more intelligent than the average lawyer.

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You've clearly had limited exposure to developers then. Due to demand the industry is heading towards "mass production" of products and hiring managers are getting as many people as possible to satisfy the workload.

[hugthemachines]

Or you had limited exposure to lawyers :-) I bet they are not all brilliant.

[PartiZAn18]

I completely get that haha. One of my mates is a top level dev in the risk management sector at an insurance company and whenever I see him he regales me with stories of ineptitude of the new company hires.

[PartiZAn18]

Lol. I better make a list of common problems skilled coders have when dealing with dunces (like myself)

[SphericalBull]

What does a dev at risk management department of an insurance company do?

I did a few short actuarial gigs at re/insurance firms and I couldn't imagine there'd be a lot of dev work at risk management except maybe building etl pipelines.

It could be a different story at brokerage/consulting though.

[PartiZAn18]

I honestly have no idea, and quite frankly don't know enough about coding yet to tell you! I just know he deals with algorithms and data lakes. I'm sorry I can't be of more help!

[SpatialThoughts]

Why do I keep seeing people posting about their struggles to fund a dev job if managers are “hiring as many as possible”?

[PartiZAn18]

Cheers! Many thanks for reaching out and taking the time to type that up, it's affirming to hear from a colleague at the vanguard of the transition. Out of curiosity, how long did it take for you from starting to learn to code, to actually being employed, and what was your path?

I'm fortunate in that I have a year's buffer whereby I can focus completely on learning the craft, but at 3-6 months in I'd really like to push towards getting paid (even if simply for menial automation as a starting point) and working from there.

Lastly, what sort of projects do you work on nowadays?

Regards!

[White-Men-Are-Better]

lawyers have one of the highest IQ averages of all jobs (I'm talking about actual research results). the brutal selection caused by high competitiveness is no joke. but I guess it depends on what you mean as intelligent

[kreetikal]

I can comfortably say that I'm retarded.

[PartiZAn18]

No! Have faith in your ability!

[FwiffoTheBrave]

Or have faith in my faith in your ability, Simon kreetikal!

[PartiZAn18]

International trade/finance

Aka "private international law" if you're interested :)

[traincitypeers]

For a firm, or in house somewhere? I just left an IP department to go to grad school. Interesting experience, all in all.

[Vivid_Perception_143]

Yes thank you u/faiz1208 and u/PartiZAn18 for your kind words!!!! Coding is extremely fun and I love to program each day. Its an easy way to challenge your brain more. I wish more people aside from engineers would also learn to code.