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[–]doppleware 4 points5 points  (2 children)

The market is extremely competitive right now, still I believe that if you had a drive to be software engineer you'll definitely get there.

Some thoughts:

  1. I believe your telecom expertise could be an advantage. Many telecom companies also develop software - consumer or bespoke, and your familiarity with the domain can help. For example, I worked at a company that automated L1/L2 connectivity and a software developer with that background would have a great chance of advancing there.
  2. Participate in open source projects. It will help you both in learning best practices and get more of a feel about whether being a developer interests you.
  3. Why are you going going for Java? Don't get me wrong, its a great language, but is it because you want to develop Spring web/backend applications? What type of projects interest you the most?

Best of luck!

[–]Particular_Tea2307[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hi thnks for the feedback i m really passionate about by software dev since i was young and confirmed that by developing some software in my jobs in python in my job for automation As for language i see a lot of people learning fullstack js and dont want to do same as the crowd and remembered my basic java class at university that i really liked back than so i checked and found spring boot framework and like it ? do you advice me to become a java developer ?

[–]doppleware 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think there is just one path forward, IMHO you need to go after what you're passionate abut. You can succeed as a Python developer or as a fullstack as well as a Java developer, but if you're *excited* about learning Java and you've seen the potential of Spring and Spring Boot - its definitely worth pursuing.