My oldest brother ended up learning welding from a community college, it was a great career move initially. Unfortunately he immediately ended up surrounded by far-right extremists in the first job he took and became a literal neo-nazi. Like joining neo-nazi marches and posting swastikas level.
We aren't on speaking terms anymore. It obviously isn't the trade's fault (and is more on him always conforming to whatever he is surrounded by) but I have maybe a slightly visceral reaction anytime I hear welding.
Learn welding, but maybe vet your future employers too.
Just don't learn to code in community college (unless you plan to transfer to university), just self-educate if you can't afford university, and learn a different trade to make life easier. Community college coding is good experience as in skills, but school is abysmal, and you'll be learning everything on your own anyway as community college professors typically half-ass their courses and give the crappiest, contradictory, low-effort assignments and sometimes with little to no reading material, especially online. Make sure to research good practices and common pitfalls as you will not learn this in community college. Also, good luck, as you are competing with thousands and thousands of laid off tech workers. You'll be lucky to have an entry-level IT contract job with no benefits and no guarantee for future employment.
My oldest brother ended up learning welding from a community college, it was a great career move initially. Unfortunately he immediately ended up surrounded by far-right extremists in the first job he took and became a literal neo-nazi. Like joining neo-nazi marches and posting swastikas level.
We aren't on speaking terms anymore. It obviously isn't the trade's fault (and is more on him always conforming to whatever he is surrounded by) but I have maybe a slightly visceral reaction anytime I hear welding.
Learn welding, but maybe vet your future employers too.
The "academics are for liberals" and "trades are for conservatives" is a fucking horror that should have been erased from the world forever ago.
Just don't learn to code in community college (unless you plan to transfer to university), just self-educate if you can't afford university, and learn a different trade to make life easier. Community college coding is good experience as in skills, but school is abysmal, and you'll be learning everything on your own anyway as community college professors typically half-ass their courses and give the crappiest, contradictory, low-effort assignments and sometimes with little to no reading material, especially online. Make sure to research good practices and common pitfalls as you will not learn this in community college. Also, good luck, as you are competing with thousands and thousands of laid off tech workers. You'll be lucky to have an entry-level IT contract job with no benefits and no guarantee for future employment.