I am 47 years old now and started to change my profession from Mechanical engineering to IT at the age of 29 years
As a failed entrepreneur in India i came to Singapore as a Mechanical engineer in 2006 and observed that IT was paying far better salary than mechanical and immediately went back to India after i had got my permanent residency for a 3 months study and came back and got a job in IT by telling my Hiring Manager to give me any salary for 3 months and if i am able to deliver give me good salary and was able to deliver.
Once i entered IT field i grew to senior project manager and spent too much time managing other developers and got hit by the start-up bug in 2008.
Unfortunately even though i was very technical, i did not have any programming experience and had to pick up everything by starting again.
If i can pick up again at 41 you can definitely pick up programming at 28.
The addictive part of programming is the problem solving aspect and the boring part is the actual writing (validation, idiot proofing, re-factoring) of good programs.
If you spend more time on the Problem solving aspects of programming, you will be able to learn more faster. Ex. Since you are working in construction, does your company require any useful information to be captured in a database using a website which they are currently doing in excel. Solve these types of problems and your skill will improve.
Find a problem to solve and solve it yourself by programming you will find it is faster and more interesting and you will persevere and ultimately succeed.
The problem gives you focus and solving the problem will give you skill.
As a failed entrepreneur in India i came to Singapore as a Mechanical engineer in 2006 and observed that IT was paying far better salary than mechanical and immediately went back to India after i had got my permanent residency for a 3 months study and came back and got a job in IT by telling my Hiring Manager to give me any salary for 3 months and if i am able to deliver give me good salary and was able to deliver.
Once i entered IT field i grew to senior project manager and spent too much time managing other developers and got hit by the start-up bug in 2008.
Unfortunately even though i was very technical, i did not have any programming experience and had to pick up everything by starting again.
If i can pick up again at 41 you can definitely pick up programming at 28.
The addictive part of programming is the problem solving aspect and the boring part is the actual writing (validation, idiot proofing, re-factoring) of good programs.
If you spend more time on the Problem solving aspects of programming, you will be able to learn more faster. Ex. Since you are working in construction, does your company require any useful information to be captured in a database using a website which they are currently doing in excel. Solve these types of problems and your skill will improve.
Find a problem to solve and solve it yourself by programming you will find it is faster and more interesting and you will persevere and ultimately succeed.
The problem gives you focus and solving the problem will give you skill.