I know it may not completely be your cup of tea, but if you're interested in something different and that supports a fairly comfortable lifestyle and work/life balance... Look into "Software Quality Assurance"

I know a bunch of folks who had no previous computers/IT background who picked this up and got some pretty decent jobs right off the bat. A lot of these places who do software testing are in dire need of folks to do manual or scripted testing of them. Real talk, just youtube or buy some books on this program called QTP, and then just youtube-learn VBScript. If you put ur mind to it, you can have it all down in a month. There are places that will pay like 45k+ if you can show you know what you're doing. Also it's a good career path bc a lot of the movements in that industry can get you 6-figures plus.