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Discussion on: From homelessness to making six figures: On learning how to code.

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siandragon

(Eng not my Native, srry)

I do identify with your story.

I started to work since very young due some family abuse context and the wish of have my own space in the middle of it.

I didn't care nothing about School wich was public, boring, and very, very low quality as our government never cared about people education even steal ITS funds being VERY corrupt.

Anyway, I started a very coarse (idk if It means what I want but It was a very stupid place) private college where I paid just to wacth my teachers harassing female students, being sexist and... at this point I was just truly fearing be living a meaningless life, so, even not playing well my guitar, as a songwriter, Bob Dylan fan, and with a brother I met on Internet, I decided to take my low economies (something around US$ 150) and make my way to the other side of the country, occupying the streets with my music...

In fact, after that decision, I survived/lived 3 years and a half from that, It took me to all kind of places I never tought I would go! I had very good, dreamful, perfects moments that made It all count, and the worst and harsh moments that teached me a lot, like live in the streets phases where I truly got scared about the chance of lose my life wandering there from there...

It was traumatic sometimes but It teached me a lot as a human being.

And as I was far from my family and struggling with my bills, even being able to conquer a cool house with a lot of cool friends, a cool life to be living, I decided to go back some steps, I got back to my family and as I self-learner and hard-worker, I started to tought very much on what I could do that I would love and make me some real good cash, and then, suddenly, all my love for computer, internet, video games, came to my eyes and I saw myself learning some languages (Java, python...) and working with Web Dev (HTML, CSS, JS, Sass, BEM).

Some choices happened after that, after spend some months on this process and one year with in my parents home, I went to work on mall to pay my move to the capital of the state, wich took my time I was investing on programming and the real deal happens there!

After all this and as I was struggling again to pay my Bills on capital, my family moved in to the Capital too and with my history, I got a scholarchip on the best computer science college on South América/América Latina, at least it's for me.

And don't think I dropout from músic, Im a multi-instrumentist nowadays, I still act as a músic producer when I have time, in fact I have some project on-the-go. I worked on some friends albums, and launched 3 by myself, for myself. I have an Idea to transform my label on a huge web platform to close the gap between different niche artists and between blogs, sites, yt Channel, magazine, places to play etc... And help people wich is beggining and much more (: