no meds, what's the implication lol practically: minimised expenses, quit job & university, went to coding meetups in my city 1-2x a week, signed up to a coupl

no meds, what's the implication lol practically: minimised expenses, quit job & university, went to coding meetups in my city 1-2x a week, signed up to a couple mentorship programs as a mentee, read through and completed exercises in books on web fundamentals (via codeacademy, pluralsight etc - microsoft used to give free memberships), C ("the c book"), JS (ydkjs, eloquentjs), Go (straight to the docs), posted all exercises and projects to github, built and deployed an application for a not for profit, took on average ~15hrs freelance work a week, reviewed job boards, requested feedback from recruiters and interviewers and used it to adapt syllabus.