When I went back to college for a degree in networking during the pandemic it was similar. A few people were clearly there without any passion or natural affinity to IT, some had the natural affinity and/or passion but couldn’t keep up, and ultimately out of the 50 or so students who I started with in the fall of the first year, only about 12 of us made it to graduation. There was a group of 30+ year olds launching second careers who helped eachother work through it all (I don’t think any of them had the natural affinity but maybe the passion), and a group of 20 year olds who had a natural affinity for tech who made it, and I fell somewhere in the middle age-wise (but I have both the passion and the natural affinity)
When I went back to college for a degree in networking during the pandemic it was similar. A few people were clearly there without any passion or natural affinity to IT, some had the natural affinity and/or passion but couldn’t keep up, and ultimately out of the 50 or so students who I started with in the fall of the first year, only about 12 of us made it to graduation. There was a group of 30+ year olds launching second careers who helped eachother work through it all (I don’t think any of them had the natural affinity but maybe the passion), and a group of 20 year olds who had a natural affinity for tech who made it, and I fell somewhere in the middle age-wise (but I have both the passion and the natural affinity)
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