Shitty life(ves)?

Classic, happy and yet...

...Leukemia came to end this first life at the dawn of my 18th birthday. I lived through martyrdom, violent pains affecting every part of my body. Faced with chemotherapy failure, I was told I would die soon. By chance, I benefited at the last moment from an experimental treatment and received a transplant. I was bedridden in a sterile room for a year, the bone marrow graft took and I survived.

It was a new life, I started from scratch, I even changed blood type. My hair grew back, I gained weight, but it took me 3 years to relearn how to drink, eat, walk, jump, run.

I pulled through and wrote a book that Editions Michel Lafon decided to publish. Thanks to Stéphanie Fugain who wrote the preface. I appeared everywhere in the media, gave conferences, the book was a success. So much the better because people need to know that bone marrow donation is possible and that it's the only chance of recovery for many blood cancer patients. I got involved with patients and associations so that my fight would be useful to others (Association Laurette Fugain 💜). This cause will be part of me until my last days.

In my late twenties, I traveled to the other side of the world to adopt my 2 boys. They changed my life and my vision of family. From this challenging journey came a second book published in 2015 by Editions Michel Lafon.

My thirties: severe depression lasting 6 years with multiple hospitalizations. That's what it took to process my past. I had never cried and I fought bare-handed against myself to let emotions out. I was at rock bottom, I cried often (finally!). I learned to know myself better, to be happy, and it worked!

I resumed studies, earned a master's degree in education sciences and became a teacher. I finally realized that feeling useful is my Mojo.

My forties and a new ordeal loomed: divorce. Another blow. In reality, I'm no longer afraid of anything. My armor is titanium, I know I can overcome anything. I decided for once to listen only to my intuition (intuition is powerful, you don't suspect its strength), I left my bourgeois life and large house for a small apartment in Lille. Not much money left, no job, I had to rebuild everything. It's dizzying. But I'm free and I now know that's the key to lasting happiness.

I got rid of everything material in my life and became a minimalist. Nothing ultimately makes me happier than this new life.

I decided to retrain in tech, that's my thing. I trained in web development, I was finally going to do a job I'm passionate about. I looked for an apprenticeship and thought it wouldn't be easy at my age. Luckily ADEO (Leroy Merlin holding company) spotted me and gave me a chance by taking me on for 2 years.

I landed in a completely foreign universe: that of large corporations. At first I understood nothing, I didn't yet speak their corporate language, I didn't even understand job titles. I really started from scratch but eventually integrated well. I learned and progressed enormously in coding, developing best practices, agility and teamwork.

Meanwhile I opened my chakras by continuing to travel the world. I set challenges for myself: I rented a van in Reunion Island for a solo road trip, I went to the Amazon rainforest to meet indigenous tribes and sail on the river. I was in my element.

After two years, an opportunity allowed me to move to Paris. New life, new world. Nothing resembles Parisian life (no wonder Parisians are disconnected from the rest of France!). It's a small country in itself.

So I arrived last May. I don't know anyone and I've never lived there. I want to be freelance but I know my hyperactivity well: working alone at home will be difficult. No matter, I'm going to recreate colleagues and the coffee machine.

I gathered other freelancers by casting bottles into the sea on the internet and created a WhatsApp community to cowork in Paris cafes. We were 6 in June for the 1st coworking session, nearly 150 in October. I had trouble managing the sessions so I decided to develop from scratch an event management web platform with database, authentication, admin space, etc. and that's how CoworkMeet.fr was born!

Once the community was in place and a one-month entrepreneurship bootcamp completed, I took care of my own business. I'll have to start earning money or everything I've undertaken will flop!

So here we are.

I announce that I am officially a freelance web developer and I'm ready to work with you!

My website has just been launched: perrinehuon.com

Working in tech amuses me, delights me and fulfills me.

Do you want to work with or alongside a happy, smiling, resilient and above all competent person? Contact me!