Ask HN: I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootcamp. Am I crazy?
Yes very crazy. I have a anecdotal survey of all coders I know: most of whom all graduated from only median Tier-2 US &amp; News Report Ranked Nat&#x27;l Universities (&gt;15) and whom have on average, earn only median Fortune Magazine&#x27;s Best Jobs annual ranked salaries as Application Developer, and only very few employed by Forbes&#x27; Most Admired Companies list or who are on the Mattermark&#x27;s Top 100 Startup Index.<p>Most don&#x27;t feel like they&#x27;re building lasting career skills, as agism persists in the industry and most people work on web applications to satisfy enterprise project business specification and project managers. During lunch, I hear conversations about the future of technology and the type of technology that we can work on if we only quit to start or work for a cool start up (e.g., Tesla, SpaceX). The consensus is that there is a tremendous opportunity for these emerging technology area&#x27;s while other disciplines such as closing JIRA tickets will become marginalized. So I&#x27;d advise you to stay away from the enterprise coding bootcamps and only apply for the specialized tech bootcamp that emphasizes on these emerging technologies. The few that come to the mind are, creating new cryptocurrency payment models (for Paypal), writing self-driving cars hardware&#x2F;software (for Tesla) and harnessing deep&#x2F;learning AI (for Google DeepMind).