what are chances of a non-computer engineer to survive in software industry..him being in civil engineering?

Answer 1

Well... I think it is gonna' hinge on how well you adjust to sitting indoors. As a civil engineer I suspect you spent a good portion, if not all of your day out of doors. In the software industry you get your predetermined and allocated cube space, in cubeville, and you spend your entire day in mind numbing meetings where you feel like your in a bad episode of Scanners and your head is gonna' explode. Then you begin the second shift of your job where you sit face down into your computer monitor and keyboard pounding out code until the next code freeze and next brain freezing meeting. Now while there is quite a bit of hyperbole in the above text, there is some truth in it as well. You are a person who likely has come to enjoy the outdoors. I've been on the side of the desk where you're looking at landing and trying to get out by taking up a camera a re-learning photography. So think long and hard about where you're headed and what you could be leaving behind.