I was always a terrible student. Spent most of my education daydreaming in class. Did all my real learning on my own by studying other peoples code, reading books, and writing code for fun. Worked like a maniac at every job I had -- tried to make each job a valuable learning experience. At the end of each experience I asked myself why I wasn't rich yet even though I did great work. (Hint: money == great_business_model and money != great_code) End result is I'm happy, and I'm worth over 8 figures.
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I was always a terrible student. Spent most of my education daydreaming in class. Did all my real learning on my own by studying other peoples code, reading books, and writing code for fun. Worked like a maniac at every job I had -- tried to make each job a valuable learning experience. At the end of each experience I asked myself why I wasn't rich yet even though I did great work. (Hint: money == great_business_model and money != great_code) End result is I'm happy, and I'm worth over 8 figures.
1 bogus story is enough. /. has sunk to abject self indulgence.