To give some context to my answer I had already worked in IT Tech support for over 5 years & I didn’t know what my next step was outside of the helpdesk role. I actually tried something completely different & studied in the Netherlands for 2.5 years as a Video Game Designer at Saxion University of Applied Sciences. However, after some time trying my hand at that, I knew it wasn’t for me. An important distinction to make was that I had two choices with the Video Game Design studies. I could either be an artist or a programmer. I chose the artist role as at the time I wanted to try something completely different. However whilst I was doing the course, my programmer friends would tell me what they were doing and show & explain it to me as well. I actually had the thought “I really should have done the programmer role as I would much prefer doing this”. And although I dropped out of the course, I didn’t forget that thought I had & it spurred me to give programming of any kind a try. I found the ITCareerSwitch.co.uk website & took a look at the course & thought I would give it a shot! Now I am happily employed as a front-end web developer!