Ask HN: Possible to become employable in five months?
Just a quick question. I would say I have a fairly deep technical background for a non-programmer: I'm twenty years old. I worked for three months at a startup doing basically odd jobs; no programming, though. I took care of some networking tasks, technical support for the parent company, I completely rewired an office and warehouse, patched holes in the wall, cleaned toilets... Etc.
I don't have any post secondary education. I've been learning the basics of programming over the last week or so with Python, and have picked up the basics quickly.
Do you think it's realistic for me to become employable as a junior developer within five months? I'm more then willing to put in forty hours per week of solid study and coding.
Thanks for your input guys; sorry this question is kind of vague, I know there's lots of variables.