Ep. 83: From high school english teacher to software engineer at a machine learning company
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On today's episode of the podcast, Abbey chats with software engineer Jackson Bates. Jackson used to be a high school English teacher, but gradually taught himself to code and landed a pretty sweet gig as a React dev, partly by chance. Today he works part time as a developer, part time as a stay at home dad, and volunteers his time with various open source projects.
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