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Story about myself
#I have always been a dedicated person. I have overcome many hurdles in the search of a career. I had a scholarship to play
soccer in college, until I tore my ACL my senior year of high school, and I asked myself what else do I enjoy. I left for college where four
years later I would recieve a degree in Bio-Chemistry. I searched for jobs out of school, and focused on rock climbing. During the job
search I ended up trying my hand at cooking and found that my understanding of chemistry and love of food made me a dedicated
and enthusiastic cook. I continued to rock climb while, I climbed the ranks of the kitchen for the next 7 years.
After 4 years progressing in my career and climbing, I was hit by a drunk driver late one night, I injured my lower back and
was forced to give up climbing, but I loved cooking enough to hang on for the next 2 years. The long days constantly
on your feet started to wear on me so I decided to look to the future and see what other interests I had. I decided to try my
hand at a childhood passion, and recently had my first gallery show, where I hung some of my ink and pen, as well as a few oil paintings.
I realized that I enjoy art but needed to find something more challenging logically and that is how I found Turing. I tried programming
for the first time during one of their try-coding weekends and was hooked. I am now learning how to code and training for a
half-marathon, life is good and I'm excited to see where this new adventure takes me.
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Hi Chris, I really appreciate how you've brought in a theme here about resiliency -- through all the challenges you've had, you've persevered and sought out new ways to help you grow. In your next iteration, I would recommend making even clearer connections between what skills you're bringing with you to your new career and cutting down on details that don't help describe that. And you could add to the ending here -- now that you've been learning to code, what do you love about it? Why is this definitely the career for you?

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