From Injured Athlete to Software Engineer: Kaleb Garner's Journey

Childhood Dreams and a Career-Ending Injury

• ⚾ Kaleb Garner initially pursued a dream of playing Major League Baseball, alongside aspirations of becoming a doctor, influenced by his family's medical background.
• 💔 A severe knee injury during college, diagnosed as plica syndrome, ended his baseball career and led him to re-evaluate his path.
• 🩺 Despite family ties to healthcare, struggling with introductory biology courses made him question a medical career.

Discovering Programming and Self-Taught Success

• 🏠 After moving back home and working at an optometry office, Kaleb discovered programming through a free front-end development bootcamp advertised by Leon Noel.
• 💻 He utilized free resources like freeCodeCamp and the 100Devs community to teach himself coding, dedicating significant time outside of his job.
• 💰 Kaleb emphasized investing time and effort over money for learning, completing his education without significant financial expenditure on courses.

Navigating the Job Search and Early Career

• 🎯 Following Leon Noel's advice to