Discussion on: What's your origin story?

Also coming from a non-traditional route. I haven't had much work experience though, so here's a list of everything 🙊:

• Went to college for 1 year
• Took a break for a semester
• Got a job painting houses, and quit after 1 month
• Took some community college courses for 1 semester
• Went back to the original college for 1 year, and still could not
• Also worked for a past-midnight cookie shop and as a cashier for a food co-op
• Cousins asked if I wanted to live in NYC with them on their couch, for a 20 year old the answer was resounding yes
• Worked at a restaurant as a busboy for 3 months
• Quit that and found a new job selling health insurance (6 month contract)
• Talked to the network admin there, and a few other people telling me "dude coding is amazing!!!"
• Me being easily convincible said "Oh yeah that sounds great!"
• Learned programming through online resources until I got into a part time coding bootcamp
• Also took a temp, full time mail room job at the same time to pay the bills
• Finished the coding bootcamp, and did the apprenticeship that came with the bootcamp
• Became a TA for the bootcamp
• Got hired at dev.to!

Now I get to leave comments like this one for (some of) my living. 🙃