Covered Bridge: As Demand Remains Sky High, Many Turn to Coding For a Career Change

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Perhaps you know someone who has been treading water in the same dead end job for years. Maybe they graduated during the deepest part of the recession, got stuck waiting tables or otherwise working in abject disillusionment.

That was Paul Minton’s story, until he took a three month coding and data analysis class. He went from making $20,000 a year waiting tables to $100,000 as an in demand data scientist. From The Times:

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A graduating class of coders at NYC’s Flat Iron School, a developer Boot Camp.–via Technical.ly

“Stories like his are increasingly familiar these days as people across a spectrum of jobs — poker players, bookkeepers, baristas — are shedding their past for a future in the booming tech industry. The money sloshing around in technology is cascading beyond investors and entrepreneurs into the broader digital work force, especially to those who can write modern code, the language of the digital world.”

Tech bubble or not, coders and analytics professionals are hotly desired right now–even eclipsing nursing at the top of the demand totem pole, and it’s not just Google, IBM, or Facebook fighting over a limited labor supply:

“…companies in most every industry, either by necessity or to follow the pack, are pursuing some sort of digital game plan — creating lucrative opportunities for computing-minded newcomers who, like Mr. Minton, want to reboot their lives.’

To meet the demand coding schools known as Boot Camps are springing up all over the county with full immersion, rapid training courses ready to put coders on the job market quickly.

Read the rest of the New York Times article here, and you can check out one such Philadelphia-based Boot Camp here.

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