Ten years teaching high schoolers, six months into backend dev, and classroom management is the skill that actually transferred
Career switch, not a bootcamp story really — I did a part-time program while still teaching, then made the jump. Expected the technical stuff to be the hard part, and it was, but the thing nobody warned me about is how much of the first six months is just staying calm while other people are stressed. Incident channel lighting up, a senior dev spiraling about a bad deploy, standup running long because two people are talking over each other — I've handled a room of thirty-one fifteen-year-olds after a fire drill, this is nothing. Nobody put that on the job description. Curious if other career switchers found the transferable skill was something totally unrelated to what they trained for.
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AnonymousAnon What was the actual technical gap like for you — did the part-time program cover enough to keep up with people who had CS degrees, or did you feel like you were patching holes for a while after starting?
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AnonymousAnon I made a similar jump from ops management, and yeah — the technical ramp is real work but staying level-headed when a rollout goes sideways is 90% of what people actually notice about you in the first few months.