\u201cAs a physiotherapist, I worked mainly with patients who were very old,\u201d he says today, with the clarity of hindsight, \u201cand you can\u2019t really \u2018cure\u2019 old age. It could get really dispiriting, and it was physically exhausting too. As for the missionary path, my faith was very strong, but I just didn\u2019t identify with the leaders in the community. It seemed to me they mixed their own interests into the holy message, and in the end I decided that was not where I belonged.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moving to Germany in 2014 to be with his wife Anne, a kindred spirit he had met during one Christian training camp in Wales, Somyeong found himself in the position of having to reinvent his career with a very mixed bag of skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So he started from scratch. He went back to studying for four years, and graduated at the University of Jena in Business Economics. He wished to continue his education with a Masters, but by then he had two children to take care of. He tried to find a job, but an initial close call with KPMG proved deceptive \u2013 after graduation he spent a whole six months in the uncomfortable trenches of unemployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was then that he started looking for ways to turn his academic, theoretical preparation in Economics into an array of practical skills that would better respond to the job market. And it was in this manner that he ended up in a Q&A for a Data Science bootcamp \u2013 not suddenly, but at the end of a long process of independent research, introducing himself to Python and to tech YouTubers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus we come back to the question that was at the forefront of his mind, and on which his entire future would turn: \u201cWould any real company hire a Data Scientist or Analyst with no more experience than a three-month bootcamp?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Data Scientist taking questions \u2013 a slim Catalan fellow called Guillem, with a thin beard and a gentle accent \u2013 smiled like someone who has heard that question many times before. He reassured Somyeong that coding bootcamps were no longer an anomaly in the tech industry, but an established route to entering the world of tech. In fact, they were often more effective than traditional universities \u2013 his own organization, the WBS CODING SCHOOL, had an employment rate of 92% for graduates within the first six months after completing the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Somyeong had to consider his options carefully. Returning to university was something he had neither the time nor the money for, particularly now that he had a family to take care of. A bootcamp in Data Science would be a shot in the dark \u2013 he had never studied the topic before \u2013 but also one that was almost completely paid for by the German Arbeitsagentur<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the end,\u201d he says, \u201cwhat pushed me over the edge was the most pragmatic reason possible. I simply thought about all the difficulties I was having in finding a job, and told myself, \u2018things after a bootcamp can\u2019t possibly go worse than they are going now, so why not do it?\u2019 In addition this looked like an interesting field, one that I could explore until my retirement age without ever getting bored.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Modern](\"https:\/\/www.wbscodingschool.com\/files\/1.-AdobeStock-by-pololia_244747028-1024x682.jpeg\")
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