I just quit my job to attend a coding bootcamp that starts at the end of this month. It's a full-stack web development course using C# and .NET. I loosely have work lined up for when I'm done... one of my college buds works for a consulting company in Los Angeles and he told me they are looking for an entry level .NET developer. So we'll see what happens! I'll post updates here from time to time.

The background is: I have been in love with programming since my TI-86 in 10th grade. Started CS in college, but drinking beer in the woods was more fun, switched to geology, eventually got BS and Masters in geology, been working for an oil company for four years, I don't enjoy the job that much and oil industry is in the crapper right now, no house note and no kids so I can afford to quit and attempt a career change, I still love programming and have kept it as a hobby, so I'm going for it. I chose a C# and .NET course because C++ is what I know best at this point, and C#/.NET developers appear to be in the highest demand right now, so that's a natural fit.

Any questions, please reply or inbox...The bootcamp thing is very new and a little frightening (rapid pace, several thousand dollars in cost, trying to find a job afterward) but a good friend of mine went through one in Portland and has gotten work, and I have heard several secondhand accounts of success stories, so I decided I should go for it myself.

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