You're not too old, don't sweat that part too much. I was 35 when I started and that was in 2016.

Check out the cirr for some sobering figures. Plenty of people pay for a bootcamp and never get hired. The bootcamps don't see this as an issue, they aren't really there to help you change careers. They're just selling seats in cohorts to teach material that is already widely available for free on the internet. It isn't worth what they charge.

There's not really such a thing as finish bootcamp, walk into new job. It takes 6-12 months to find that job, and you still have to keep learning while you do so.

I dropped a highly reputed bootcamp because in 2017 it appeared 3 in 10 weren't getting hired. You can see that reflected in the CIRR.

That's all to say that the bootcamp isn't what got the other 7 hired. I insist the other 7 could have saved the money and still gotten jobs.

What have you been doing til now? Do you have a degree? If so, what is it in? That stuff might be way more valuable than a bootcamp.