flâneur

right place, right time - by arianne ghislaine

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there's a reason

at 18, during my final year of high school, i landed my first paid job coding for sunnybrook health sciences centre. it wasn’t an easy journey—earlier that year, i had applied for the same position, but it was cancelled due to COVID. when it reopened, i applied again, driven by my passion for programming and my dream of working as a programmer. having only done unpaid internships before, i was thrilled to finally be paid to do what i loved. my parents were proud, and i was ecstatic to take my first step into my future career. i was just a high school student, standing in front of a…

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