I am currently working in Financial industry tax- 4 years in compliance and switched to M&A tax advisory. I realized tax is not something I would like to do. I always wanted to be a software engineer but never knew how I can learn it sufficiently to be able to enter the field. I still want to work to sustain myself and study in my free time Any recommendations?

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I am going to make a dangerous assumption that your primary programmatic software productivity tool as a tax advisory is Excel/ ppt.

In your free time look into tools that may be tangential to your day to day. Maybe you find yourself building sophisticated models that choke excel and could consider using R to runs these calculations off a standard form you use each day? Perhaps you want to teach yourself Visual Basic to run some of the excel routines through macros? Perhaps you want to build dashboards in some BI tool to help users interact with pivots of the data in a graphical fashion?

Each of these theoretical steps away from the day to day routine but through the magic of YouTube, udemy, etc you can pack on a ton of peripheral knowledge in a few weeks. Play with some of your work problems in these new tools you are exploring. If you enjoy it you’ll find yourself bringing ideas back to the team and maybe win a chance to put these skills to use professionally.

Your work will be awful (lol) but you will learn about the tool with hands on experience. This is a path to a new beginning.

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YOE- 6+ Years.

Please comment, if you have any other certificate suggestions as well for me.

TIA.

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