Hello askTRP,

I came here, to ask men with more experience for advice. I will soon reach the age of 22 and I am having a hard time deciding what I want to make of myself.

Background:

Age: 21

Languages: Polish native with more or less fluent English.

Localization: Poland

Currently, I have got 2 years of call center experience and am currently working corporate for a rather decent pay(for a 22 year old). I haven't got a degree, I was studying finance & accounting but dropped out since I doubted that it would lead me anywhere where I want to be in the future.

At this moment, I am steadily working on improving my physique, spending time dating multiple women and working, but it's obviously not good enough. For a long time I wanted to learn programming and I have managed to asses 4 different paths of learning:

IDEAS:

1) Part-time CS degree from one of private universities in my country - it shouldn't interfere with work as I would go there on fridays and weekends. Costs aren't steep but getting an engineer degree will take 3,5 years.

2) a 30 day, weekend programming course. There are a couple of courses to choose from, each is about a different area of work and they all cost about 10k PLN(that's about 3,5 x my salary). I have doubts about this one since I would have to purchase my own laptop and 30 days of learning doesn't seem to be quite enough to be anywhere close to becoming a real coder.

3) A one year programming course with 6 months of paid internship and guarantee of work afterwards. This one seems like the best deal, I will only have to pay for it after completing the course(Full cost: 24k PLN), it seems to cover all areas to reach my goal, but there is one major downside - it will not allow me to keep my current job and I would have to start working part time(classes monday-friday every 2 weeks).

4) Start learning on my own, but this one is a tough one for me cause I don't even know where or how to start. Even then I am not sure if I would manage to teach myself properly in a reasonable amount of time to start gaining income from it. I have tried khanacademy when I was younger but lost interest quickly, not sure if I shouldn't start again?

SUMMARY:

For steps 2 & 3 there is a catch. They both seem to have a rather complicated recruitment process, which means that I might not even get accepted in the first place. Step 1 is easier to enroll to since I only need to be one the first to apply. Can you guys please help me out on this one? As embarrassing as it might be, I am terribly anxious about making the next move and I want to pick the best route.

Disclaimer: English isn't my 1st language, I am sorry for any errors and would greatly appreciate feedback.