At the beginning of it all, when I was working in the music business, I didn’t have any experience or relationships in the industry, but my thought was: How do I focus my energy and improve my economic well-being without drifting further into debt?

A lot of people from different backgrounds don’t have the resources to pay for bootcamps and they wrestle with the idea of taking on high-interest-rate loans. You see a lot of companies now offering to defer the cost of a bootcamp until a student gets a “tech” job, then they’ll take a percentage of your salary. I’m not completely against this model, but if you’re broke today, and scrape through a bootcamp to get an entry-level job at $50,000 a year, giving up a percentage of that for three years after graduation is tough, especially if you already have student debt.

(Newsflash: Not everyone comes out of a bootcamp making $80,000.)

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