For years, the career advice from everyone who mattered – Apple CEO Tim Cook, your mother – was 'learn to code.' It felt like an immutable equation: Coding skills + hard work = job. Now the math doesn’t look so simple. — Photo by Mohammad Rahmani on Unsplash
When Florencio Rendon was laid off from his third construction job in three years, he said, “it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
He was 36, a father of two, and felt time was running out to find a career that would offer higher pay and more stability. “I’ve always been doing jobs that require physical labor,” he remembers thinking. “What if I start using my brain for once?”
