IMO taking Calculus later in life is probably easier for most (study of 1) people (assuming you have seen some of it before). I took Calculus at 19 years old and passed but I did not have any idea what it was really used for. Taking it again during Grad School (mid 30s) Calculus made way more sense. Ideas would click (mostly not CS related) but more in the general world view (think washers for nuts and bolts – area under a curve). I will be the first to admit that making front ends and tuning a DB will almost never need any calculus (but it does happen) and admit I did horrible in high school but turned it around in college (I was behind when I got there the first time for sure). How much do I remember right this second (not much), but I do feel its worth doing as if only a right of passage to say we deserve that 6-figure salary and maybe not feel too bad about calling our self’s engineers.
Good luck with the singing lessons and new job, but if your married (or have children) do NOT quit that day job just yet If not, well hell go for it my friend!!!
Lol, I hope I get to feel that way in hindsight! Right now it's just the struggle and the grind... math feels like a bad Asian MMO where you just run around crunching numbers to make other numbers go up slowly. And if you die/miss an assignment, you have to go back a few levels and do it all over again. Sigh.
> that 6-figure salary and maybe not feel too bad about calling our self’s engineers
Hah! I've only ever briefly made a 6-figure salary, and I quit that job because of its bureaucracy. I'm just some rando dev and I would NEVER call myself an engineer (even though my job title sometimes says that). It's an insult to all the REAL ones who actually survived the math, lol.
(Frontend) web dev has always been more similar to me to graphic design than anything I would call "engineering": It's pretty-looking shiny stuff backed by spaghetti code, not anything I'd ever trust to life-and-death scenarios like dams or bridges.
Anyway, that's not the point :)
> well hell go for it my friend!!!
Hah. This is the upside of a minimal DINK life. We don't have much money (at all), but we have fun!
