I have been accepted to App Academy and have been considering it as a faster option to getting high-paying work, but as a younger, international candidate I’d have to pay for flights as well as a US$5000 deposit. It’s something I’d even be willing to borrow money for, given my waning motivation for university, but without an income or much current earning potential I don’t know if I could get a loan for it. And I couldn’t earn enough to go to the round I’ve been accepted to in time.
Anecdotally someone close to me did one of those and it was a quick way to burn thousands of dollars.
I tried to dissuade them, but end the end they came back with less knowledge than I did of the subject, and all I did was follow some youtube tutorials and look at stack overflow to create a couple learning apps for android.
That assumes the goal of App Academy is building knowledge. I don’t think it is. The goal is getting a well paying job. Somnicule is likely smart and has knowledge of programming but he still doesn’t know how to get a job despite not having formal credentials.
Paying thousands of dollar for going to a state without a job to a state with a 50000k job is okay.
Anecdotally two people close to me did similar crash camps on coding and ended up with high-paying coding jobs despite having no experience in software development and degrees in unrelated fields. They seemed to do well, but since this isn’t a controlled experiment I can’t say whether the jobs they got are jobs they’d have not been able to get if they just studied on their own for a while.
The general incentives for this one seem better than average, (they generally take a cut of your first year’s income rather than an upfront fee, high average income aster etc.) but I get a different, fixed payment contract since I’m from NZ. It’s tempting, but higher risk than if I were from the US, especially since without a completed bachelors it’d be much harder to get a visa, and work here or in Australia won’t pay nearly as well.
I’m really losing motivation at university and have my own mental health issues, so the prospect of something like that has been somewhat comforting as an escape route.
This has turned into “somnicule’s personal problems” rather than the actual point of the thread, so I’ll leave it there.
I have been accepted to App Academy and have been considering it as a faster option to getting high-paying work, but as a younger, international candidate I’d have to pay for flights as well as a US$5000 deposit. It’s something I’d even be willing to borrow money for, given my waning motivation for university, but without an income or much current earning potential I don’t know if I could get a loan for it. And I couldn’t earn enough to go to the round I’ve been accepted to in time.
Anecdotally someone close to me did one of those and it was a quick way to burn thousands of dollars.
I tried to dissuade them, but end the end they came back with less knowledge than I did of the subject, and all I did was follow some youtube tutorials and look at stack overflow to create a couple learning apps for android.
That assumes the goal of App Academy is building knowledge. I don’t think it is. The goal is getting a well paying job. Somnicule is likely smart and has knowledge of programming but he still doesn’t know how to get a job despite not having formal credentials.
Paying thousands of dollar for going to a state without a job to a state with a 50000k job is okay.
Anecdotally two people close to me did similar crash camps on coding and ended up with high-paying coding jobs despite having no experience in software development and degrees in unrelated fields. They seemed to do well, but since this isn’t a controlled experiment I can’t say whether the jobs they got are jobs they’d have not been able to get if they just studied on their own for a while.
The general incentives for this one seem better than average, (they generally take a cut of your first year’s income rather than an upfront fee, high average income aster etc.) but I get a different, fixed payment contract since I’m from NZ. It’s tempting, but higher risk than if I were from the US, especially since without a completed bachelors it’d be much harder to get a visa, and work here or in Australia won’t pay nearly as well.
I’m really losing motivation at university and have my own mental health issues, so the prospect of something like that has been somewhat comforting as an escape route.
This has turned into “somnicule’s personal problems” rather than the actual point of the thread, so I’ll leave it there.