Switched from teaching to coding and found out I'm not that bad at math

I was a 5th grade teacher for 8 years and thought I was terrible at anything numbers related. Spent 4 months in a coding bootcamp in Austin and realized I was actually decent at logic problems, I just hated grading multiplication tables. Found a study that said 40% of successful career switchers come from education backgrounds and it made me wish I had tried this years ago. Any other former teachers here who found a hidden skill after switching careers?

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stellas5618d ago

Gotta push back on this a little. Just because you hated grading multiplication tables doesn't mean you're good at math, it means you're good at logic puzzles that coding bootcamps teach. Real world coding involves a ton of boring math and debugging that has nothing to do with feeling smart.

kim_smith18d ago

85% of coding is just figuring out why someone else's variable was named "temp.

laura_lane11d ago

Does grading math facts really relate to actual math skills? Bootcamps teach a very specific kind of problem solving that's more about patterns than arithmetic. The boring parts of coding are just a different kind of patience you already had as a teacher.