Almost two years ago, Isaiah Hickerson woke up in the middle of the night from a dream that he was a coder.
The dream was totally random; he didn’t know a thing about coding. He had a job answering phones in the grooming department at a PetSmart in Miami. After hours, he was trying to figure out what to do with his life. At 23, he’d taken some community college classes in business and biology. He was lukewarm on both.
“I just felt empty,” Hickerson said. “I wanted to do something different, but I just didn’t know what it was. I didn’t have a passion for anything. And I didn’t know what passion felt like.”
