[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic]You can get a law license through self study under a practitioner if you pass the bar, but would be hard.
I don’t know anyone who’s done it that way. Would have to be quite clever and motivated. Law school is dumb, but it does perk up the brain and work ethic.[/quote]
Anything is possible. But for most, most of it is improbable.[/quote]
Not sure anything is possible. Could one become a great athlete without coaching and competition? Might not be possible.[/quote]
Sports is different though,from engineering or law.
You don’t have to be the best in law or engineering to do reasonably well. But I don’t think you can get just get by being a mediocre athlete if you need to count on it to pay the bills.
Software is a little different. It is possible to do well without being a CS major, unlike most other stem relate careers. It’s not that common and not as easy as some people who claim it to be. But there are folks with liberal arts degree that have been able to do it. I had a coworker that was a Poli Sci.undergrad from Stanford who self taught himself after he realized he didn’t want to go to law school. He did fine and ended up a a lead engineer at Google. He was smart and motivated enough to pick things up himself.
I had a guy in QA that I recently converted over to software engineer. he wasn’t a CS major, but an engineer that graduated from UCSD. Really smart kid, really motivated to want to do development, spent his own time learning, and volunteered time to take up work we didn’t have time do in the dev team. Contrast that with some other guy that wants to be in dev, has no engineering background, wants to go take a bunch of classes on basic stuff one can learn on the internet, and can’t handle basic small scripting tasks.
So not everyone can do it.
The other angle is there’s a lot of people who work at a tech company that aren’t engineers….that’s another way to get in.. some are in product management….there are others who are the glorified bean counters (program managers),.etc..If you get lucky , and hit the right company that IPOed, well it might work well for you too.
That’s also why some folks non+engineers end up trying to chase after a tech company because it is possibly they can hit the jackpot that way too, something they normally couldn’t achieve just at a normal job with their skill set and career prospects. Sometimes it works out for folks. Theres a bunch of executive assistants and bean counters at Qualcomm that are multi+millionaires simply because they were in the right place at the right time. One can argue whether their windfall is fair or not fair. Imho, a GOOOAL win is win no matter how you get it. For most of them they won’t hit the jackpot. In a tech downturn, those folks in the supporting role are the ones usually the first to get let go, and have the toughest time finding employment in tech during a downturn..many of them never return.
