I can change a light bulb or program a 500k robot with a laser.

Automation, technology, the net, robotics, now Artificial Intelligence are taking jobs away at a rapid pace.

So, they gave me the number again which I called and the robot answering the phone said that there was heavier volume than usual and that the wait would be over an hour.  

The required education must serve a bona fide business purpose of your employer.The education maintains or improves skills needed in your present work.However, even if the education meets one or both of the above tests, it isn't qualifying work-related education if it: Is needed to meet the minimum educational requirements of your present trade or business, orIs part of a program of study that will qualify you for a new trade or business.You can deduct the costs of qualifying work-related education as a business expense even if the education could lead to a degree.Maybe instead of saying to find an additional part-time job, I change my argument to just this coding bootcamp will helps me gain technical knowledge on how to implement the robotic automation in the company by understanding how to talk to the technology team on technical issue and understand what they are doing.

@Dawn AnastasiThere is something robotic and therapeutic about tiling for me.

Should I be more robotic and let the management software do its work?

Pittsburgh can't compete meaningfully in this outside of certain niches, such as programming and robotics.

Still thinking with my robot army brain I guess!

And I be damned if I’m going to pushed around and made into a Robot!

For example, if you 100% knew you want to do robotics, you'd go to Carnegie Mellon or Georgia Tech over Harvard for undergrad, because CM and GT dominate the robotics realm.Lastly remember not to lose sight of college's purpose.