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PD session on storytelling, be the hero of your own story

Growing up in the woods of a small colonial town, I had an interest in tech, but didn't quite have access to the help I needed to nuture my interests. So I drifted, I tried going into business and sales that's where I learned that career path can be rather soul sucking and dull. Learning that I didn't like that path I took the leap and decided to navigate the tech career path. I tested the waters on the hardware aspect of tech, but realized my interests lie in web development. Passion in mind I found Turing, states away, but a huge enough change to where the stakes are high!

Growing in the tech field is certainly much harder than I had imagined. Each week is a new struggle! But that feeling, when you finally grasp the concept and get your code implemented, it's utterly a-moo-zing! I know that the struggle will continue even past Turing, but I welcome the challenge. It keeps things exciting and new. It's great when I can find a new more efficient way to write my previous code. I look forward and onward to my future in tech.

Thinking about the path ahead, I'm excited for the lifestyle that generally comes with a career in tech. I'm excited to always be learning, to professionally and personally improve myself and others around me, to be proud of work that I have had to invest so much time in. I envision several steps in my 15 year plan, in which the end game will be to find a passion project that I can lose myself in. There will be bumps in the path ahead, but the skies look much clearer.

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Grow up, Grow in, and Think.

Words to live by

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Hi Justin,

This is a good starting draft. Some questions come up for me as I read this, like why are you interested in tech? That reason is not really explained here. What do you want to do -- you mention a passion project that you want to find, but what do you want to do right now? What kinds of problems do you want to work on? Answering these questions will make this a much more coherent story. Also, there are some grammatical issues that you'll want to run through a tool like Grammarly.

Please revise your draft by 9am on Monday 2/25 with this feedback. Let me know if you have any questions on this, thanks!

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