So, the first question I have: Could I learn to code?
Answer: I don't see why I could not.
Question, which language should I learn to code?
There are so many answers that I just get lost in the weeds of trying to decide where to begin.
So, what to do?
I looked up what seems to be hot now and came up with ruby and ruby on rails. That looks like a good place to start...
Now to explain my last experience with writing code... at one time in my misspent youth I actually was somewhat able to use BASIC to write programs... Then I experienced my first bankruptcy and ended up working 60+ hours a week trying to dig out of that hole with a 1/4 teaspoon sized shovel... I didn't go forward and I didn't go backward but it essentially crashed my life. I somewhat recovered from that and joined the army where I sort of got sick with the FOMO/YOLO bug... So nothing to show for that except a very toxic marriage. Oh I did learn to operate a backhoe, but realized I really didn't want to drive the transporter trucks. That won't work in most areas... So I probably won't do that as a profession. I put in an application at a certain mining company but apparently my application got lost in the piles of other online applications that were put in at the same time...
So I am back to how to raise an income while doing something that I would be interested in. But enough of my bio... :P~ In short, I did know how to write in BASIC at one time. So the newer languages that don't include line numbers give me a headache. The seem to be somewhat well laid out if I can learn the syntax and what it means in general. So at this point where do I go to learn from the perspective of the utterly ignorant person who probably needs enough info to understand how to use the language, but doesn't need to go into the weeds that might confuse me as far as where something came from, I just need to know what my computer does to use it, not the code under something like this site or this dialogue box which works somewhat like a WP... in order to use it. So I probably don't need to know the background of the syntax of ruby to use it just the current syntax and how it will work and how to keep from damaging my computer (if that is possible) while learning to write.
I'm pretty sure where my strengths lie, which is in proofreading (QA) and instruction (I really enjoyed teaching my job when it got to the point that I was able to do that) so how do I turn my passions into a job? How do I get past the computer gatekeepers when submitting applications to my second tier (not that I wouldn't be very pleased to climb onto a D8/D9 or equivalent crawler tractor in a pit mine) choice of a job. After all if I could do that then I could continue to perfect my writing and proofing without concern that I will end up on the street or worse.