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A love letter to my future employer (2020)

Week four: CVs, pairing, TDD and the calm before the storm

With the exception of a three month temp job, I started the past decade going back into education as an adult; gaining the qualifications needed to apply to university; getting into university and graduating; applying for and obtaining a place on a prestigious PhD program; then getting sick; being challenged by death to a three year long dance off; winning said dance off; returning back to the PhD four months after having major surgery; realising it wasn’t right for me; then accepting that I needed time to physically, and mentally, recover; became an entirely new person based on the experience and challenges I faced; and now we are at the present day. It’s why I’m throwing myself in the path of uncertainty, challenging my intellectual ability, leaving the degree I am still yet to start paying back to gather dust, and opening myself up to the very real possibility of continuous rejection. In fact, I accidentally tried to arranged some outdoor extremely socially distanced activities for a Monday in a couple of weeks time until my husband had to remind me I was now a working woman and cannot just venture into the woods on a whim.

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