A Maine man who sold drugs on the dark web as a teenager went to prison, then taught himself software development during 14-15 hours of daily internet access through a prison college program. He landed a full-time remote software engineering job he performed from inside, with release expected later this year.
There's this guy who's a software developer, but he's incarcerated in a prison in Maine. This guy grows up 17 years old. He's a computer geek. Somewhere along the way, this is what he says. I stumbled headfirst into the dark web of internet wholesale drugs, and suddenly I'm making tens of thousands of dollars a week by the age of 18, 19 years old. Age 20, he gets arrested for the first time. He goes to prison for a couple of years and he gets out. And here's what he says. I'm left with a difficult choice, hoping to get a $10 an hour manual labor job, or I could go to New York and come back home after a week with $10,000 or $20,000 in my pocket. I chose the latter, and obviously I was back in prison a short 14 months after. Where is he writing this? On his blog? On his blog. It's called My Story. During the pandemic, we happened to be at this prison in Maine that has this program, enroll in a college coursework while you're in prison. They also gave him limited internet access, 14, 15 hours a day. He spends learning how to code. One company was willing to actually employ him. He's working a full-time job from prison. It says on his LinkedIn he gets out this year. I know, I'm excited for him.
