Not everyone that goes successfully gets work. It is hard to go 9-5 everyday especially if you have a job or a kid. But people do it...It also depends on who the teacher is. What you have as a background, how you network and the work experience you get after the course. I had a animation degree, with front end experience. Most people had psych degrees, marketing, and graphic. It also depends on what kind of work you want. Contract, agency, corporate work. I had to network but my first job taught me a lot about corporate environment. How most Corp companies don’t plan for user research in their scope. They don’t have the budget and just want design solutions with pretty colors. They don’t care how users use it. They want to meet a deadline so they can get that promotion. With that you sacrifice quality and development time when the design doesn’t work. Understanding backend and front end helps with what you can do and can’t do in the timeframe that they have. But the question is it worth it? Yes I would say so. Not everyone can draw on a whiteboard but you can learn. Not everyone is good a research but you can try your best. Not everyone is going to find work.You will come across the ass holes that think because you did a three month course you don’t know what user experience is like. You will have to just find the right company with a team willing to except you as a junior ux designer until you gain that experience. As a designer you have to learn to fail and try again. Not everyone gets it right on the first try.