Jack didn't think it could succeed. But he took the gig on anyway. It paid the bills. Not that he had much bills to pay. He wasn't a dad and he didn't have any parents he had to help retire.
rent
was cheap as well. One benefit to living in
Westcity
as opposed to out West.
Another benefit was that he was basically the best programmer here. He wouldn't be jack shit out West, but in Westcity he was considered a wiz kid.
Funny because a programmer can work remotely. So it shouldn't matter if he was the best programmer in his locality. Because well, wouldn't they just hire someone out West.
Turns out it wasn't like that. Even when people hired you to do something that technically required no in person interaction, they still preferred hiring someone they could see in real life. Grab a coffee with together. Stuff like that. People were more social than Jack gave credit for.
Jack didn't give a shit about that stuff though. He could go months not seeing a person in real life. More accurately put... not seeing a person he knew. He passed people on the street everyday. But those were strangers.
When he wasn't working at a cafe, he'd go to a
coworking space
. There he would code software for clients while listening to podcasts. Surrounded by strangers.
