What directions in programming do switchers choose?

Question

IT education

***I decided to ask this question here, because I don’t know what other resources it can be asked on, so I ask you in advance not to throw cutlets or advise another resource.***

The essence of my question is this: if you know the humanities who have themselves retrained for programmers, what directions / areas of programming did they choose? Are there many people who are doing something more serious than front-end?
My observations: from my environment, none of the switchers went beyond the frontend. I noted for myself that I don’t know a single former humanitarian who would write backing, be engaged in full-stack development, or games, cryptocurrency, etc...

Answer 1

I had a friend who studied psychology and became a good php developer. A friend started to study as a lawyer and then retrained as a java developer. It's more a matter of willingness to take risks, for example, the backend seems to me easier than the frontend, although before switching there was an illusion that the frontend was easier ...

Answer 2

You might think that the back is more difficult than the front.

Answer 3

it is worth dividing people not into humanitarians and techies, but into those who have the desire and self-discipline, and those who do not have enough of them for all things in life. I have both a front-end lawyer and a mathematician-journalist (where the first is the former profession, the second is the current one)

Answer 4

Sberbank has java-backs retrained from non-IT specialties.