<prompt> Human: Im 20F. No real education beyond a GED, due to a long slew of health and family issues Id rather not get into.I take home about 1700 a month. My expenses are 1260 a month. A bit over half of that is my housing expenses, which I cant really lower at this point- Im living in the cheapest place I could find with a roommate.I have about 10k in my checking accounts, as well as 11k in an IRA, 2k in a 401k and 1k in stock.The coding camp is 16 weeks, 2 courses a week, and will run me about 3.5k. I do love programming so its something Im interested in and consider myself fairly good at, but I dont have any sort of connections or portfolio. I spoke with the director, looking at their curriculum which they claim is crafted around the needs of my local market, and they seem pretty genuine. He was excited about some of my personal work Id shown him Im a writer and he asked and could talk a lot about what their past graduates had gone on to do- they had a long list of companies who had hired from them.To do this my liquid cash would go from 10k to a bit over 6k... 4.5k of which needs to be a 3 month emergency fund, 1.2k of which is in use of whatever month Im in and budgeting for. I feel like Im in the clear to do this... but Im very worried money-wise and scared to pull the trigger. If some big disaster happens in the next few months, and I dont have the cash for it, I dont know what to do.I need some advice if this is worth it. My gut is telling me yes, but Im very concerned. One thing to note that is due to the camp, Ill be cutting a couple hours at my current two jobs and will probably be earning more around 1.4k. Still enough to cover my expenses, but not much wiggle room.Thanks.  <response>: rcareerguidance, rcareeradvice and rcscareerquestions are probably better at answering if a 4 month course is worth it compared to a 4 year university degree program. 