Absolutely. I did it. I started off with working fixing computers at a local small business and literally worked my way up from at home IT support, to medical IT support, to big business IT support from there to doing application development at the same company and eventually getting to the one I'm at now.
That pathway is a bit unique to me I think, but in a general sense, work experiences and those open source projects (no kidding my 2d evolution game was cited as something that made me stick out to the new company) can and will take you the distance to a well paying programming career.
Absolutely. I did it. I started off with working fixing computers at a local small business and literally worked my way up from at home IT support, to medical IT support, to big business IT support from there to doing application development at the same company and eventually getting to the one I'm at now.
That pathway is a bit unique to me I think, but in a general sense, work experiences and those open source projects (no kidding my 2d evolution game was cited as something that made me stick out to the new company) can and will take you the distance to a well paying programming career.