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How I Became a Software Engineer
In high school I fell in love with Spanish and entered college wanting to be a linguistics professor but the college I went to didn't have linguistics as a major so that was kind of red flag number one. After college I didn't really know what I wanted to do because I kind of abandoned the professor dream along the way and had developed a lot of other interests. Luckily enough I had an aunt who worked in the tech industry in Boston and at that point coding boot camps were still pretty new; they started in the bigger cities. It took a whole another year for me to kind of make the decision when I was finishing up teaching and then since then you've been a long kind