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Rémi Mercier

I've studied design until 19 then got my first job as a stained-glass master. I've done it for four years, restoring 15th to 21st-century stained-glasses throughout France.

Then I studied history of art and museology. Worked in museums, libraries, and art galleries for a while until I was 25-ish.

Then I dabbled in marketing and started working in startups as a content creator until 33.

Then I got bored of that too and learned Rails through a 2-month Bootcamp. Landed my first gig as a fullstack dev at 34. Still doing that, two years later.

I glossed over all the small jobs I've done over the years but they range from making popcorn for theaters in London and carpentry. :D

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Arika O

I see you did the bootcamp with Le Wagon? I also wanted to try them here in Berlin but I wasn't into Ruby back then. If two months enough to get you to the "job ready stage", that's impressive. I know what you mean about the other jobs, I too switched many field until I stopped at this.

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Rémi Mercier

Yup! I did Le Wagon in Paris a couple of years ago. Well, tbh, Le Wagon is not enough to be "job ready" for 95% of people. Some ppl are outliers in terms of learning ability and are amazingly good in just two months. In my case, I spent a few months coding things for myself to learn a bit more. Also, I had a lot of professional background to leverage too. It compensated for my lack of technical knowledge.