Analogies to other professions give your argument an air of legitimacy, with none.

There’s plenty of people in this world who are expert programmers without following any traditional path.

“Oh yeah, like who”, you say.

Con Kolivas, anaesthetist, work on kernel schedulers including the Staircase Deadline (RSDL) scheduler which was a precursor to the Completely Fair Scheduler in Linux and the Brain Fuck Scheduler and the ck Patchset.