Transition to Tech Career

I've been a pharmacist for 4 years. $150k+ per year salary but the job is boring, stressful, and probably dying. My student loans are paid off and investments are off to a good start, so now I'm thinking about switching to the tech industry.
I have no coding experience, but I've always been tech savvy. I know my way around Windows and Linux really well.
I want to quit pharmacy and switch to a tech career that pays at least $100k a year. What in-demand skills should I learn and what's the best way to do it? Should I go back to school?

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why do you think tech won't be boring and stressful

> Going from a 150k+ job to (you think) 100 a year
> Loosing A THIRD of your income

user, why ?

>I want to quit pharmacy and switch to a tech career that pays at least $100k a year.
Regrettably, I don't think they have any openings in Fantasyland for the foreseeable future.

Stay a pharmacist or at least within the area. You will never be as well payed in Tech. Think, do you want the white man's job or the job that can be done by an Indian for a quarter of what you will make.

I’m studying for the CCNA right now, it comes recommended to give you a strong background in how networking generally works. I’m in a somewhat related field currently where it will actually help my job to understand it at this level, but I won’t get more advanced in networking than this. From there I may doing a sec cert and learn some basic programming, but that will generally just be for shits and giggles and won’t really help my job. You can’t just want to get into “tech”, you’ve got to figure out what the fuck you want to do. Do you want to be a sysadmin or a sw engineer? Start dabbling and figure out what you’re into.

t. I’m doing this strictly for the money, but it’s not unbearable and will be very useful

Uh, what? Just save up half a million and retire at 35

Unless you live in a shithole like California, no entry-level tech position pays $100k.

Also: tech is really fucking boring - no matter what you do, and probably just as stressful.
Sysadmin? Stare at a screen all day, occasionally bang on the keyboard for a bit.
Programmer? Stare at a screen all day, occasionally bang on the keyboard for a bit.
Then when shit breaks, you're working late because downtime means lots of lost money.

I make 180k doing webshit. If he’s good, he won’t lose any pay. Furthermore, if he genuinely enjoys dev, it won’t be soul-crushing and stressful.

This shit is so repetitive. I'm tired of dealing with customers and idiotic/unreliable workers.
Seriously? I've heard of software developers 2 to 3 times as much in California. Low 6 figures most be somewhat in the rest of US.
Not everything can be done by pajeets. That why I asked about the skills that are in demand.
It can't be as bad as pushing a bunch of idiot workers to race against the clock every single day to complete pharmacy tasks. 90% of my time at work involves staring at a screen. The other 10% is giving out vaccines and health advice.

>Seriously? I've heard of software developers 2 to 3 times as much in California.
Yes, but you'll spend 10 times as much on rent. What do you think happens when you have millions of high-paid workers in a small area?
You end up with 200 sq. ft. apartments costing $7k a month.

>Low 6 figures most be somewhat in the rest of US.
Yes, but for experienced people. You're below entry-level because you don't have a relevant degree or experience.
You probably couldn't get an internship right now.

Go to a community college and start a course in computer science or electrical engineering. Drop out after one semester if you don't think you can do it and then you'll have only blown $1k-$2.5k.

Also remember, most people wish they could have success and be bored with it. You're probably better just being a computer hobbyist doing your own thing while raking up the money selling oxycontin to boomers

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Jobs are means to an end. Don't do it.

I'm not retiring until I have at least $2 million net worth. Maybe when I'm 45 if I stay single and don't have kids.
Thanks. I can see this is probably not worth my time. If I had gotten a CS degree at age 22 and worked until now, I'd probably be making as much as I do now but with better job satisfaction.

Grass is greener, dude. If you were doing CS you'd be making half and hating it more.

look for an informaticist position maybe? i work for a large healthcare company and we have several informaticists (pharmacists and MDs) on staff

>I'm tired of dealing with customers and idiotic/unreliable workers.
uhm its LITERALLY the same in tech

Don't go back to college, you'll get bored out of your mind.
Weirdly enough, I know a lot of people that transitioned from good paying jobs to a programming job and just made a massive pivot in their career.
IMHO, the best thing you can do is to get into a coding bootcamp, most of them are pretty intense and gets you into coding quickly. Incidentally, those bootcamps challenges your interest in programming, weeding out people that just can't put themselves through learning how to code.

Though, there's a lot of coding bootcamp out there that serves different purposes.
Webdev bootcamps are the easiest and are probably the majority of bootcamps.

I'd suggest messing around a bit with whatever you can find and whatever you find interesting. Once you know what to to aim for, just go for it.

you could very easily find an informaticist job if you are a registered pharmacsist or a pharmd and are willing to move. i dont think you would need extra education beyond what is specific to the EMR you end up working in (Epic, Cerner) which will have its own set of certifications your employer will pay for. and this type of position pays a wage in line with what a working pharmacist would be making.

it might be more difficult to find a position if you haven't been doing inpatient pharmacy though

I'm a CS graduate TA.
Tech is massively over-saturated.
We have an entire generation of kids going through primary education who have heard "you need to go to college, you need to major in Computer Science, you will make tons of money" their entire lives.
So schools are pumping out CS grads at record rates and not enough open positions for them all.

Last semester our graduating class had only 3 people with relevant jobs. Everyone else went into tertiary fields like technical sales ("Sales Engineer") or things just outright unrelated.

>Not a NEET
>Make more than most of us here
Get Out normie

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What do you need to start Web?
What kind of portfolio?

Do you need Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, PHP?

I'm a pathetic NEET, please help.

Is that also true for web dev?
Or do the zoomers still think internet is only portable porn

>Just save up half a million and retire at 35
>people still believe in early retirement meme.

OP i am in not way qualified to give advice on tech careers but you could learn some things on the side and either try to do some quick online stuff to get a taste for the work

eg fiverr type shit, like making basic webpages for people and whatever.

or try to help your current work by undertaking some tech related tasks. then if theres an opening you could slide in?

or be the /techsupport/ and get exxttra bucks

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Web dev is insanely saturated.
Why do you think there's a new flavor-of-the-week JavaScript framework every week?

It takes zero knowledge of computer science to do web dev.
99.999% of the time, you don't even need data structures.
So what happens is you have "boot camps" that churn out React developers in 6 weeks and get hired at a fraction of the cost of someone with a discrete maths degree who did some programming.

Hop on the bioinformatics meme.