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My Career as a Series of Emails

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Home 🌙 My Career as a Series of Emails I met with a new colleague at Notion last week and our conversation started with my career history. My half-joking summary is “falling ass-backwards into great opportunities over and over again.” My honest summary is “a series of events where I created luck for myself.” I proceeded to rant for well over half an hour, waving my hands wildly in that conference room in true Italian-American fashion, and was given the advice to write this up. After spending a few minutes digging through my Gmail archive and smiling at old emails – I agreed. This post is an honest chronicle of the job opportunities, mentorship, and negotiation benefits I’ve had exposure to in my career – told through the emails I sent and received.  Asking for an update In my junior year of college in January 2013, I started to aggressively look for an internship in San Francisco, a magical land full of people wearing Dropbox T-Shirts talking about Ruby on Rails. I was not necessaril

My career as a series of emails My career as a series of emails I met with a new colleague at Notion last week and our conversation started with my career history. My half-joking summary is “falling ass-backwards into great opportunities over and over again.” My honest summary is “a series of events where I created luck for myself.” I proceeded to rant for well over half an hour, waving my hands wildly in that conference room in true Italian-American fashion, and was given the advice to write this up. After spending a few minutes digging through my Gmail archive and smiling at old emails – I a

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