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Old 01-18-2021, 12:01 PM   #5774
Johnny Makarov
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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface View Post
That's when I learned to get scared of anything that seemed too good.

I was getting my software engineering degree with the dot com bust went down. In my second year of university, kids were getting offers for $100K to ditch school and move to the US. When I came out of school, I was one of 2 people in my class that managed to find a job (that wasn't directly a software engineering role) and I happily accepted my $44K offer without countering.

To summarize my life:

Switched from my intended Mechanical Engineering route to Software: crash

Switched from awful jobs in the beaten down tech sector to energy: crash

Now I'm back in software....
Time to suck it up and go work for the Canucks or Oilers.

Or are you that potent that you would bring down the entire NHL?
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