back in the 1990s, in-house fintech groups at JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs were notorious for hiring musicians as software developers, exactly because they already knew how to think in code.
you didn’t have to have an engineering or compsci degree to get hired. what you needed was to show your code and prove you could learn on the job.
you can tell today’s techbros are nepobabies & trust fund capitalists, with the money to hire others to do the creative work.
creatives will create… 🧵