If you’re learning to code right now and it feels brutally hard, this video is me telling you: don’t quit yet. I’m not speaking from theory—I’m sharing my real life experience from 3 years ago when I started my self-taught journey because I needed to exit a career that almost took my life. I came from construction engineering, and even though I touched C++ in college, I never understood back then that coding can be leveraged to escape, to get freedom, and to build something out of nothing. I talk about why coding feels different from “easy skills” like cooking: the learning curve is steep because coding is a high-income skill. Companies can’t easily replace a good programmer with the exact same skill set, so of course it’s hard to earn. The only formula I found that works is repetition—practice over and over until the fundamentals click, like math. I also share my first real project exposure (trying to build a “Tinder for sport” in Java back in 2018) and why even unfinished projects still level you up. Coding changed my life: I switched careers at 32, got into software development, met people with the same mindset, and started building products and multiple income streams. If I can do it, you can too—keep coding.