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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Adam Lichter says he spent his last year in Newfoundland and Labrador's oil industry teaching himself to code while working on a supply vessel in an oilfield about 350 kilometres off the coast of St. John's.
Adam Lichter says he spent his last year in Newfoundland and Labrador's oil industry teaching himself to code while working on a supply vessel in an oilfield about 350 kilometres off the coast of St. John's.
comments Clark Oake, left, and Jan Mertlík. Oake retrained though Mertlík's Get Coding program to become a software developer after he was laid off from his oil and gas job in Alberta. (Heather Gillis/CBC) Last May, things weren't looking great for Clarke Oake. Oake was laid off from his rotational job in Grande Prairie, Alta., as an electrical engineering technologist, working on heavy machinery in the oil and gas industry. Oake's was one of nearly 24,000 jobs shed in Canada's energy sector in the second quarter of 2020, due to a pandemic-related drop in energy demand, according to Sta...