if it was a 1year bootcamp, then I think saying 6mo is.. "fine".
Consider transitioning from Excel to LibreOffice or Google Sheets. On the surface it's the same, but doing advanced things requires considerable time investment and is very uncomfortable.
>Consider transitioning from Excel to LibreOffice or Google Sheets. On the surface it's the same, but doing advanced things requires considerable time investment and is very uncomfortable.
Silly hypothetical. I can't imagine a scenario where a company heavily utilizes advanced Excel, and then decides they want to use Google Sheets instead.
Besides, we're programmers, and learning new tools all the time. Things are deemed obsolete regularly.
> I can't imagine a scenario where a company heavily utilizes advanced Excel, and then decides they want to use Google Sheets instead.
I can't imagine a company that has built it's foundations on AWS migrating off of AWS. Such an endeavour would be more painful than transitioning spreadsheet tool by at least multiple orders of magnitude on basically every metric you can come up with.
That's also a broad definition of programmer. Most people (even programmers) come in a few categories:
1) People just solving a problem, tinkerers and explorers, people who are not really programmers first but it solves a need to get further work done.
2) People who just want a job that pays; lots of these, bootcamp folks mostly though I don't mean to make it sound negative -- nothing wrong with people that just want a decent paying job.
3) People who learned enough skills as teenagers to be well paid and are coasting or specialising in that area. I know lots of people like this, I believe on some level that even I am like this, though generally curious I tend to mainly focus on my area and only expand slighty around it and slowly. If you swapped out Linux for VAX I would be terribly displeased. See also: SystemD
4) People who love to learn about computers and how they work. This is probably the rarest person, and I was this person in my teenage years. It doesn't matter to this kind of person the economic viability of a project: the only thing that matters is that they do something. This is the people who make GameBoy Colour games in 2023. Or the people writing console emulators or doing DemoScene.
The majority of people don't keep learning, they learn their area and improve upon it.
I firmly believe that an AWS Cloud Engineer (or AWS programmer) would strongly prefer to move to another AWS shop.
Consider transitioning from Excel to LibreOffice or Google Sheets. On the surface it's the same, but doing advanced things requires considerable time investment and is very uncomfortable.