170 KB JPG>>109931600 (OP) #I just turned 40. Bought my first house, my wife announced she's divorcing me in order to get a free house. Shes sleeping with other guys and has never worked a full time job. We have three kids.I explained everything to my management and they laid me off with a great 1 year pay severance package including tuition anywhere.I really want to do a 2 year game programming course at college - focused on C++ and C#. I actually signed up for a 1 year carpentry course that teaches how to build houses.I can still switch. I just don't know, its such a gamble. I am doing Javascript in free code camp and I really think I just want to program games, but with carpentry I could theoretically build decks for cash on weekends if I had tools and a car still.I may end up just a guy renting a room and only owning a laptop. I will not do accounting again it makes me want to die. I wanna program games ... or build my own one room shack to live in.What do you guys think? Should I stick to carpentry and do coding as a hobby? Or can I just dive into coding and be a hermit? My lawyer says I will have to pay this leech 60% of my after tax income and payments wont stop for 16-20 years.
>>349752182 years for game programming is a waste of time and money. You can easily self-study with a book or real project work and achieve it in a month or two.So you can do both, I think.
>>34975297I dunno about that. Im a nerd and I want to make games and play games and not much else..Like, yeah cqroentry is cool but with games if I was a bum renting a room somewhere I could at least code and have projects on the go. With wood working id need a actual workshop
I’m a C# dev who does web-shit.The coding industry is absolutely poop-tier at the moment and for the foresable future. Without work experience the door is effectively closed for anyone new looking to enter the field unless you are a top CS school young graduate.Try something in healthcare but nothing in coding and even less so game-dev which is by far the worst sector of coding to be in.You don’t even need to go to school anymore to learn this shit just buy a clause subscription and tell it to make what you want and teach you along the way.
>>34975516Also carpentry is way better than computer science if you have genuine interest in that go for it and abandon all desires of having a game dev degree. AI can build and game that you want for you but it can’t build a home
