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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Luc Constantin.

Luc Constantin, our guest today, represents so much of what this show is about: there is a path for you in tech.\xa0 Luc grew up in Romania, one of the poorest of the old Soviet Bloc countries.\xa0 At 13 years old, Luc dropped out of school.\xa0 By the time he was 18, he was addicted to drugs and fulfilling his country\u2019s military service obligations.\xa0 At 21, in his own words, he was finished with the military and had \u201cno hope, no future, no desire to live\u201d.\xa0 Luc had no idea that he would one day become a programmer or be in the tech space at all.\xa0

At 23, Luc decided to go back into the military.\xa0 From age 29 until 42, he worked in logistics for a packaging and bottling manufacturer in Toledo Spain.\xa0 At 42, he started learning to code and landed a full time junior web development role by the time he was 43.\xa0 These days, he\u2019s a front end developer having held down roles for the likes of Gadacons World and Bioclimatic Green Home in Spain.\xa0 If you think its too late for you to get into coding, be sure to tune in!

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Quotes

\u201cI was one hopeless drug addict in the 90s, I got 4 kids, I\u2019m 43 years old, I live in a foreign country. Of course it\u2019s challenging [to learn how to code], but it can be done!\u201d

\u201cWhat is the internet? How does it work? What is Google? The way I understood how HTML works is by understanding how a browser works.\u201d

\u201cI was waking up at 4 or 5 AM and for 2 to 3 hours I was coding, learning and studying. Then I would go to my daily job until 3. Coming back, I would eat and have time with my family for 3 and 4 hours. During evening time I was doing the same \u2013 coding, learning and programming!\u201d

\u2014Luc Constantin

Key Milestones

Check out Luc\u2019s personal blog about his journey into tech \u2013 https://blog.accolades.dev/

Free Code Academy lets you learn how to be a programmer from your home \u2013 https://www.freecodecamp.org/

Additional Resources

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