I always say that everyone can (and should) learn to program -- but by that I usually just mean that you can't be considered computer literate without being able to make the computer automate work for you. For most people picking up a powerful editor possibly combined with a scripting language or two (shell+awk+grep, perl, python and/or ruby for instance -- and maybe throw in R, Mathematica or something for crunching numbers (even SQL -- it depends on what you need)).
It's still fascinating (and maybe a little sad, re: the state of programming) that you could end up earning 70k after a year of part-time(?) (hard!) self-study. Maybe even more sad that you (as I understand it) made less as a (presumably) proficient blacksmith.
All that said, we've got few blacksmiths in Norway, so if you want to switch back, consider migrating here ;-)
It's still fascinating (and maybe a little sad, re: the state of programming) that you could end up earning 70k after a year of part-time(?) (hard!) self-study. Maybe even more sad that you (as I understand it) made less as a (presumably) proficient blacksmith.
All that said, we've got few blacksmiths in Norway, so if you want to switch back, consider migrating here ;-)