Aaron Jack was 23 and fresh out of college when he decided to take an abysmally low-paying English teaching job in Vietnam. He was desperately looking at future career prospects while buried under a ton of student debt. Aaron’s time in Asia was no bed of roses, with his dead-end teaching job paying only about $10k a year being just one of his worries. But it was not until he had his possessions stolen and got kicked out by his roommates that he finally woke up to the fact that something needed to change drastically to stop his life from going down the drain. “I had a post-college world travel phase and wanted to keep that going. I thought an English teacher would be a great way to keep having fun. It wasn’t,” shares Aaron.
Making A Change
Aaron decided to learn coding despite having no background in computer software or information technology. “Being in pain and needing a way out, I learned about the software industry,” he reveals. All he knew was that the software industry had a massive demand for people with knowledge of coding languages, and anyone could learn it online with no requirement of any formal education.
Aaron joined a coding boot camp for three months and learned how to code. He landed a job at Uber, one of the biggest tech companies in the world today. In a short span of 8 months, Aaron Jack went from being broke and teaching English in Southeast Asia to earning a six-figure salary in San Francisco. “I stayed there at Uber for two years, went all-in, and got promoted as a top performer to ‘Level 2’.”
Becoming an Entrepreneur
Aaron was still highly motivated to achieve more so he could escape San Francisco because he just “couldn’t keep doing San Francisco.” He quips, “SF is an absolutely terrible place — and probably the worst place on earth for dating.” He decided to quit his job at Uber to work as a freelancer. Meanwhile, he launched his YouTube Channel to spread awareness of how anyone could change their lives within a year like him.
The popularity of his YouTube channel led Aaron to believe that he could take on the highly overpriced coding boot camp industry by teaching other people how to code at 10x less cost. “I decided writing some code was fun; teaching others to do this would make way more of an impact than writing some code,” explains Aaron. “So, I made it my goal to make a dent in the education industry and take on the coding Bootcamp industry, which needs a revolution.”
Aaron Jack now has about 300k subscribers on his YouTube channel, having built a successful coding education empire by fanning the flames of the self-education revolution.
