Web Dev can be a focus, but you're still just looking at development in general.

Any time in the past 40 years I would have told you absolutely. How things are going to turn out in the next couple years I couldn't tell you for sure.

About half a million tech workers have been laid off in the US over the past year. I expect salaries to come down, and work/life balance to take a hit. How much of one is still in the air.

In six months it'll probably be a lot easier to answer this question.

Here in the US, there are a plethora of web dev jobs available once you hit the mid / senior level. I'd say on a high-level that about 80% of them offer pretty good work-life balance. Every web dev job or gig I've had in the last 7 years has been extremely flexible.

Happy to answer any other particular questions you have.

What is your current career? I was an Electrical Engineer until 2017 and was also considering a CS degree. I opted for a Web Dev boot camp instead as a lower timeframe/cost test of my ability to pivot.

I was able to land a job 8ish months after graduating and am now a Sr. Software Engineer. I think my previous engineering experience did help me get my foot in the door but one of my bootcamp grad buddies also broke into a web dev job without any bachelor's degree.

The CS guys here may scoff at me but the boot camp route made sense for me and it may for you as well.

It's definitely not a shoo-in. You have to like to code and have a passion for it. I liked it in high-school so it wasn't liked I just pulled the "lets try a coding career" out of thin air.

I think you missed your other 2 questions. In only see 1 question currently.

1. Not in my experience. It really depends where you live. Any big corporation is going to be worse than a smaller local company.

I recently left a high stress remote corporate job for a local hybrid job.

For smaller companies losing a developer is a much bigger deal so they tend to try and keep you happy much more.

2. If you have the means getting a degree will certainly openany doors that may otherwise be closed.

After a couple years experience it doesn't really matter tbh.

But many bigger companies will filter based on degree as a way to reduce applications.

Plus there's much less competition for local jobs Vs remote.

That said I have a degree and don't know much about the self taught route. But that's my understanding.

All jobs are different. There are some in my country that offer unlimited holiday. Essentially you don't have a fixed number of days but you still need approval.

So if you're on top of all your work and they can cover you you can just take a paid month off when ever.

But these jobs are obviously harder to get.

It's very varied and you'll like have to hop around as your career progresses. Working corporate made it easier for me to get better jobs even though I hated it at the time.

web development has a lot of opportunities.