I am 59, presently working full-time, but layoffs may be looming, as there has already been some. I am already signed up for a Pharmacy Tech. Class at my local comm.college starting in June. It will be 3 months of training for $175 and $150 for books. Not bad to start off with that. I still want to pursue coding if I can. I did have to take some pre-testing and had to be at a specific level in Math, Reading and Locating Information (info with maps and charts, you had to work the answer based on the info given, not always easy, some charts very complicated...questions on soil/sand/clay/silt analysis, computer technician pinging a network, stuff like that). The tests start off easy and get progressively harder and they are timed. These were STATE recognized tests, as many temp agencies require them as well as the college, as they need to know where you stand. I have a Bachelor's degree, and I still had to take the tests to get into the Pharmacy class.
They offered a lot of preparation courses for these tests as well, had lot of opportunities to learn and gain confidence to take the tests. I was very lucky and did not need any prepping.
Check with your local community college and even if you don't go that route, they can give you advice. Coding is complicated, takes a few months to many months to learn and you definitely want to be a qualified candiate for a job.
I will send you an email and we can chat off of the forum.

Just make sure you do a good investigation of schools, colleges that won't just take your hard earned money!

June Lynn