As someone over 30 with two degrees and programming for 7 months now (JS and now Objective C), I found this story quite interesting. I mentioned my two degrees

As someone over 30 with two degrees and programming for 7 months now (JS and now Objective C), I found this story quite interesting. I mentioned my two degrees because they are worth about as much as his no degree. My masters was from Georgia Tech in city planning (land development) and got me decent jobs in real estate development until the Great Recession. Now, I am unemployable in my field because I am more nerd than marketing mouth-piece. That said, it is a little disheartening to learn than I chose to learn technical skills (I love just learning about the differences between all the syntactically-similar C-based languages) only to be in the same stupid predicament of needing to rely on marketing and gimmicks to get a job. Maybe if I did not live in the Hollywood of the programming world, that might not be the case but I do. It was a nice story nonetheless. I see he benefited from having friends who code to tell him exactly how to get the most out of his code 9 months. I spent three months doing a @"Code Year" += 2 at Codecademy --before --I formally even learned how to type (big mistake) and 6 months before I started commits to Github (bigger mistake?)... and I still have not been to a JS event. Not even Hacker Dojo. Anyway, good for you for getting there. I will put down the text books and text editor and start networking...right after I finish this Objective C app.