Wow, what a depressing article. Despite the title and subheading, this is not an article about whether coders are “worth it,” or whether there is “value” in what coders do. This is an article about a man who dreams of being a professional writer, but is too caught up in a world of free lunch and $900 chairs and buzzwords to do anything about it.
Sure, we could all quit CCA and go to a RoR bootcamp tomorrow (there are at least a dozen of them in this city), and get a well-paying job in a matter of months. This is a known fact. But isn’t life about the pursuit of happiness, and chasing your dreams? Isn’t that why we’re at CCA – to find a career that will make us happy instead of pining for something else? That’s certainly why I’m here. I walked away from a highly-lucrative career, and I did it for a reason: because it didn’t make me happy. It wasn’t what I truly wanted to be doing with my life.
Life is short, but it is also so, so very long. Too long to code all day if what you really want to do is write.