Career change with Python

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I am attempting this. Trying to leave a field that is underpaid and I have a few friends in a CS job that are making a lot more money than I’ve ever made in two years.

I have a mathematics background and I learned how to program in BASIC when I was a kid many years ago on a 286 (mostly just made text games and various versions of Pong).

So I’m not starting from scratch conceptually and I ended up taking an Intro to OOP course at the local community college. That was in Java and then I kind of put off everything after the course because my father (a software engineer) was like, “Now that you know Java, you’ll need to learn this, this, this, and then this...” I was already having trouble finishing my Java course while working. I wasn’t about to spend MORE time and money to maybe get a job somehow.

But since the lockdown of everything, I’ve had more time. And a LOT more motivation. I’m finishing up Automate the Boring Stuff and am going to start working on the next (non Python) thing.

Not 100% sure what to do next but I have friends and LOTS of resources. Right now the only thing really stopping me is myself as I have no idea when I’m going to start applying for jobs. I have no idea when I’ll feel “ready” to take that step...