Four lessons I learned after my first full-time job after college
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[ Twitter thread ] Last year, I wrote Career advice for recent Computer Science graduates about the decision-making process I went over when choosing my first full-time job after college. Now that I’ve just left that first job, I want to share some lessons that I wish I knew when I started. 1. It's all about the people Before starting working, I had a naive expectation that my social life would carry on from college into the real world – all the friends I took for granted in school would continue living within a 5-minute walk from me and being available whenever I needed them. The transition w
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