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Ask HN: Nurses who left to code, how was your transition like?

1 points by gxespino ↗ HN
After five years as a surgical nurse, I'm in the final stages of my transition into being a software developer (60 days left of being a nurse). I'm thinking about documenting my transition and was wondering if there are any other nurses turned hacker out there. I've yet to meet any one else in real life who's done this.

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MichaelCrawford
I can't say that I've ever met any nurses who became coders, however the president of an electronic medical records startup I once worked for, was a physician.

He wasn't a coder, but he had some very good ideas about how our product should work. The other two cofounders were experienced coders.

I myself am trained as a physicist. I once met a former french teacher. It's quite common for people to change careers into coding.

Were you to document your story, it would attact a lot of interests; a website would be popular, a book might be a best-seller.

I once had a psychiatrist who was a nuclear physicist before she became a shrink. I looked her up online, she went to medical school in Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then school on the side.

gxespino
Wow, thanks for the motivation. I'll start documenting the process and see where it goes!