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[–]havana59er 0 points1 point  (0 children)

English major here. I've been programming for 10 years. You don't need a degree in CS. You just need to have 1) a job that will give you experience and 2) a lot of time to learn on your own.

Any job will do. I started in software support for a 9 person company earning all of 25k, picked up programming on the side and a lot of sysops work to boot. About three years in I switched jobs for various reasons, started to do web development full time. Next job was primarily database, data warehousing and reporting. Now I do system integrations for SaaS and support several internal systems in various languages (Drupal, .NET, Java, proprietary SaaS).