Got some general questions for yall.

To start, I am not in the field but considering doing some learning
or plotting some sort of change in my life towards coding. Why, I need
to make some more money and my current line of work has ran into a dead
end. I feel like it aligns with some of my interest and I've always
loved trouble shooting as a live sound and install guy. I got an
offer for a seat in a 24 wk bootcamp at one of the better
Universities in my area but they want 10k which is crazy to me when
I know self learning is out there


Anyway

How did you get started?
Where are you trying to take it?
What sort of obstacles have you faced?


I guess I just want to read about the web development life