Hello everyone,
A little about myself. I'm a 24 year old American English teacher living in Asia. I have a degree in English from a reputable state university. I took a lot of computer classes in high school, so dabbled in C++ quite a few years ago. I've recently been teaching myself Java, overall I'd say I know about as much as someone who has taken 2 semesters of university classes. Anyways I'm interested into changing careers(not right away of course), is this possible with no formal training or schooling?
If you weren't an IT major, how did you break into that first job? Did you know someone? Did you get certs? Even people who did not go that route but have any advice please respond. I'd like to back to school but that would put a huge financial strain on me. But if that's the only way to get a decent first job in the field I may save and scrape up what I can and get ready for a diet of ramen noodles. Please let me hear your two cents.
Thanks!