I mean duhhhh, it's super easy to go to school while taking care of a family on a budget that's too low as it is for the hope that maybe you'll get hired as a junior developer in the completely, insanely, oversaturated market. All you need to do is skip unessential things like food and sleep, leave your kids outside while you work so no daycare costs (freezing builds character) and go to school at night! Then it's just a breeze of sending 100s of applications and maybe hearing back from one of them in a years time.
Bro, Did you stop to think that maybe this is all he knows how to do? Did you stop to think that maybe he tried other things before being stuck at burger king?