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13- From Barely Graduating High School to Landing a Job During COVID-19

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 12:46 p.m.

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Alex recently landed a job as a software engineer during the global pandemic. On top of the challenges of job searching during COVID-19, he comes from an unconventional background - he dropped out of college and completed an online self-paced Bootcamp. 

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Much of his path was shaped by the experiences he had when he was a teenager- from facing racism, to never feeling like he fit in, to falling into a depression because of his parents' divorce. We talk about how these experiences eventually helped him find himself and become a successful software engineer. 

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View the full transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qa2sTBsC891n0tiJ3R95IEyqZTmgE_jYKyHx0DfvQUo/edit?usp=sharing

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