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The key is to get someone to pay you in proportion to the cost of obtaining that knowledge.


Bingo. I remember being an undergrad watching all the other majors play frisbee while we suffered. "That's ok", I remember thinking "this has to pay off. I mean, why else would we be doing this and not enjoying life? Wait until we graduate, then we'll see whos living it up!"

A dot com crash and several cube jobs later, those same folk are living in better homes and driving luxury suvs while I am pondering how I can escape the hell that is a modern day software cubicle job....Guess the joke really is on us.




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