How to Get A Dev Job For Free
How It Started
I didn’t finish college. I was married by the time I was 21. And we had already had our first baby by then— he was my best man at the wedding. I had and have no regrets about this, it was what we both wanted to do. But it did put our family in a financial pickle. For the next couple of years I worked maintenance jobs and trades jobs, and finally settled on painting — it was super consistent with the company I found and not terribly dangerous or taxing physically. But of course I wasn’t wholly satisfied with this career choice, especially the money.
That’s probably because it wasn’t a choice so much as a necessity. I had no experience, no work history (aside from odd jobs and stuff I did late in high school), and no degree. And I didn’t even know yet that I’d have another love in my life — code (this was much to my wife’s dismay by the way, she referred to my laptop as the other woman for quite some time).
Dream Big, Follow Your Passion
I continued down my painterly career path for about 5 years. But secretly, unbeknownst to pretty much anyone except for my family, I wanted to be a web developer. At night, I coded, and read code, and read books about code, and read blogs…
