“I’ve always been doing jobs that require physical labor,” he remembers thinking. “What if I start using my brain for once?”An Army veteran, Mr. Rendon explored training programs he could fund using his military benefits. He landed on a coding boot camp. At first, the intensive courses seemed intimidating. Mr. Rendon had gotten his high school equivalency diploma before joining the Army, and he had taken some college courses, but he didn’t consider himself book smart.

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Persons: Florencio Rendon, I’ve, ”, Rendon, didn’t Organizations: Army