I went to college for electrical engineering, and I did pretty well, and I have several years of work experience, but I also kind of feel like I'd have an easier time prepping for and passing a software engineering interview, to get a job that maybe even pays more. Just about all the EE jobs I'm interested in want extensive experience with very expensive software and processes, and I'm in the rather unfortunate position of working for a place that does almost none of that. I took a gander at SWE interview reports for Google on Glassdoor, and while I'm not quite at that level, I think I realistically could be in the ballpark with a few months of work (and zero monetary investment, rather than having to either buy stuff or deal with pirating it).