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Barywhyte:
And all these people asking you to combine medical studies with IT when you are not yet a professional in either field, will kill you before your time. They don't know what they are saying. Changing course within the larger IT isn't that easy if you are beginner.

Choose a career, build expertise, gain experience, earn money from your sweat before thinking of switching to another. Focus is key.

But what exactly is driving you? Is it money?

bercarray:
I'll say i have a passion for it more than the so called MLS and also if i eventually take the decision of ditching my MLS for programming, the fact that if I'm not successful at it, will be a shame to me infront of my parents is enough to motivate to work hard while coding, that's why i want to dedicate the 6yrs of my MLS to keep learning and upgrading and meeting up with gurus in the field

Charpell:
Finished university 2012, 5 years later no meaningful employment.
One day i figured out that my B.Eng certificate was no longer useful, dumped it and started programming from scratch, watching Youtube and free courses from coursera
Started coding at 2017 (27 years) and I have never looked back.

You already have the funds, it makes it easy for you

Charpell:
Finished university 2012, 5 years later no meaningful employment.
One day i figured out that my B.Eng certificate was no longer useful, dumped it and started programming from scratch, watching Youtube and free courses from coursera
Started coding at 2017 (27 years) and I have never looked back.

You already have the funds, it makes it easy for you

xalex77c:
wow, this is very motivating, I have a few questions sir

How long would it take someone learning programming to become job ready?

and, what learning materials did you utilise?? Thank You

tensazangetsu20:
Honestly I used to think this but its absolutely not true. Even a friend of mine when I was learning to code advised me to go for data science because web is saturated. My friend has been doing data science for 3 years but has been unable to get employment but I got my first job six months after learning web development. The path many Nigerians take to learn web development is unprofitable thats why it looks like its saturated. There are paths in web development that if you need a developer today you cant find them. SAP one of the largest ERPs has moved to cloud and they now use Javascript (UI5). How many SAP Fiori UI5 developers are in Nigeria. They no reach ten. How many Magento devs do we have here? According to the Magento registry of certified devs theres just two. One is in UAE. The other works remotely for an American firm. I checked their linkedin. How many Shopify developers do we have in Nigeria. Even the popular wordpress we all use. How many Nigerian devs know how to make custom themes or plugins. Most Nigerian devs follow the sexy paths to web development but in the real world, theres very few jobs using this things thats why it appears saturated.