Career Change/New Hobby.

[CemeteryBloom]

Hey everybody!

So I'm currently fed up of feeling stuck in a rut and would love a career change that can be used as a hobby outside of work as well.

Now I've recently started looking at picking up Python as an interest and wondered would this be something worth learning for a change in career.

(Any advice as a beginner picking this language up and courses worth looking into would be great too!)

However if there's one thing I'm terrible at, it's decision making. So I don't have a preferred field of work/interest that I'm looking at to get setup into. I'm just looking for something new that I'll potentially feel better about doing.

Any help, advice & suggestions would be greatly appreciated..

 

[CemeteryBloom]

Thanks for the advice AHarvey, I'll take a look at some videos and I'm going to try and find the Facebook group.

I guess my main problem is finding what to make though if I check local adverts and what not, it could give me a template to work from as a way to learn what things do and how they work easier.

 

[CemeteryBloom]

I could be, it depends on you really, it is a language that is increasing in popularity and can lead to very well paid jobs. That can, in part, depend on your skills, qualifications etc.. I mean you do also get programmers who no degree or professional qualifications etc... if you're very good then you'll get work regardless, but that can be a harder route to take.



Well you mention you're terrible at decision making/don't have a preferred field of work etc.. is there any time pressure here - have you recently been made redundant or something etc..?

You've made a decision re: language but that isn't necessary at this point, it might be better to take a look at some online courses, CS101 type stuff and be a bit more language agnostic initially:

Example:

https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science

or this sequence of three courses perhaps:

https://see.stanford.edu/Course

or this sequence:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-b
https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-c

They all give you exposure to different types of languages to some extent and are more about the concepts etc..

There's no time constraint really at the moment. I'm still employed, an this was something to pick up in my spare time which would result in a future career change a long with the possibility of working from home and in my own time as well. The work I'm in at the minute is pretty much a dead end with no optional over time or ways of acquiring any additional income. It's also not very rewarding mentally.

Thank you for the advice and help. I will definitely check out the courses. It would be great to have some structure and reward at the end.