Has anyone here made a big career change that required a reset? Think strategy consultant > backend SWE? How did you deal with the reset in salary? Was it hard to make the switch? Are you happier now?

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I know someone who went from law to computer science. He worked at a software startup as an attorney and self-taught himself some programming languages. Now he's on the software development team.

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CPA (Auditor) to Data Engineer, now working on moving to data science. Fortunately didn’t take any pay cut since audit pay is so terrible.

Yes, it was very hard to make the switch. Yes, much happier now!

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