How does one get involved in such an industry? This is the conundrum of one of my colleagues who is looking for an industry switch.
There don't seem to be relevant conferences or meetups in his area, and job applying is quite awkward. He'd be junior in a new industry and expected to take literally 1/3 the wage. Of course he does his fair share of self-study, but no formal schooling for any of these different fields.
I'm not sure what to recommend, what are some things would you do? Go back to school? Take a (much) lower paying job and go from senior to junior (or even intern)? Also, that option may not be feasible given existing financial obligations. One idea I had was maybe for him to try applying to work at startups, who might view one more "holistically" in terms of overall capabilities.
I worked in the furniture industry building software and we had a great interior designer who ended up working as a SME (business analyst) in our projects for 3 or 4 years.
I helped her prepare her resume and practice for interviews and she got a job as an actual BA making the salary of a mid level/senior BA and has been killing ever since.
Software Engineer->Low level software engineer->Embedded swe->robotics (doing a mechanical eng diploma in the evenings)
Probably drop pay at each stage tho!