Productive Unemployment
summary
A year on welfare becomes productive: spends 650 euros/month while learning Ruby on Rails, GitHub workflows, tests and deployment to Heroku and integrating Stripe, Redis, SendGrid and Postgres. Builds an edible-hood neighborhood app, then a Discourse backup plugin set that adds Google Drive and other providers to default S3; fixes a failing Sidekiq job in production and gets direct user thanks. Bootcamp costs cited at €5–6k, internship leads straight to a paid developer role.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 2:55CODE
- 3:13Unemployment
- 4:53Hartz IV Stigma & Shame
- 7:50Follow Job Center Instructions
- 11:38Rails app
- 15:21Team Berlin Diamonds
- 19:49Coaching Company
- 22:19Open Source
- 22:53teams
- 23:59unemployed is
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