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[Part 5] Choosing a job
I'm realizing there's too much details to tell and it's going to be hard to boil down my language learning journey in a single short serie.

The more I write, the more details come up in my mind. It's just crazy ...

I'll try to make it easy to have a very big outline.

So, let's get back to it.

One more thing to keep in mind is at this time, I was about to get my A-grade. Thus, about to become a young adult.

I had a lot of strategic problems at this time (choosing a career path, finding my way to make money, understanding life, etc etc).

My dream was to be someone who has control in life.

A bit like James Bond if I had to give an image.

I had a dream to be on plane, reading international newspaper, understanding life and making good decisions.

Languages are great but if you don't have money to live, you won't be able to learn them.

And I didn't want to work directly with languages, like being translator.

I felt it was like cheating. I wanted to have a normal career.

So I'll go straight to the point

I became a software developer.

It was the easy path to make money and the momentum was huge at this time.

Programming is great because it's the same logic of problem solving that we find in Mathematics but with computers.

So after getting my A-grade, I taught myself programming, I started to work and in parallel, I made a lot of experiences in languages.

As you may guess, this experience as a developer was great.

I'm telling about my life but it's important to get some context to understand the steps.


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