This was only obvious to me because I had already spent time working closely with small to medium biz’s. Most college peers had not.
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The co-op program at Drexel kept me from dropping out right away. I was excited for work experience.
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First co-op job: doing work I loved (IT/Network support) in a company that was full of sad, miserable people at a big corporate bank.
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That’s when I learned how much work envirnoment matters. People matter. I couldn’t stay.
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Second co-op was doing work I thought I would hate - web development - at a company of people I found fascinating.
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Before that job, I didn’t see a career for myself in writing code. Seemed boring, repetitive, too much math. I was wrong.
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Web development became my craft - my practice. I was surrounded by practitioners, my coworkers.
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I got so much more from that environment than school. Dropping out was easy math: pay $$$ to learn nothing, or get paid to learn every day.
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On reflection, dropping out of school was one of the first major professional choices I made. Choosing a path I was actually in control of.
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couldn't agree more. Wrote a piece on this two weeks ago: "To understand it, you have to do it." https://medium.com/product-people/i-wasted-4-years-of-my-life-doing-this-60e2d21b642#.p8gmh7ahf …
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