From Hospital Janitor to Developer with Emmett Naughton [Podcast #185]

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Emmett Naughton. He worked as hospital janitor for years while teaching himself programming using freeCodeCamp. He's founder of Coder Dads, a chat community where dads encourage one another.

We talk about:

• Making ends meet while raising a family

• Recovering from getting laid off twice in the same year

• Emmet's journey into the PHP Laravel ecosystem as a full stack JavaScript developer

• How to use social media effectively when you don't like using social media

• Emmett's sleep apnea and how fixing his sleep dramatically improved his thinking and coding

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Emmett's website with dozens of blog posts: https://emmettnaughton.com/

• The Coder Dads community: https://coderdads.carrd.co/