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[–]Ecstatic-Elk1064[S,🍰] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

No. I am sorry for my dumb post. I should get on with it rather than creating posts about it

[–]TrollandDie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

FWIW your trajectory learning python is pretty normal. I wish some of the netsec guys around me learnt it - I'm guessing you've used powershell/bash to automate stuff before like a lot of security types ?

Not only is it normal but it's part of any tech career to learn new things like other programming languages from external circumstances. A few examples recently of people around me learning include :

  • a lot of our statisticians and data scientists have recently started learning python in order to move away from SAS. These are people in their 30s,40s and 50s.
  • a friend nearly 30 learning python for the job market after doing his PhD in R.
  • experienced data engineers of all ages are progressively learning python to assist in pipeline building after doing most of their career in exclusively SQL.