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You have five master's degrees? I'm not sure if most people (or anyone) can really use what works for you and make it work for them, if that's really the case.

FWIW, I found your comment very unhelpful. It sounds more like you want to brag about who you think you are.

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It's simply small amounts of marketing, continuously applied. Why would that be unhelpful? What in any of my statement was "bragging?" The only people who care about any education I ever got was someone in HR who needs to check a box. I get hired for the stuff I have built and can build, not what I learned in a classroom two decades ago that I have most assuredly forgotten by now. I built a couple of small side projects, I put them on github, I took photos, I showed the project to people on LinkedIn, I got hired. That's what works, for me. If anything, I'd say getting a formal education beyond high school is probably the most worthless thing I've ever done in my life to advance my career.

Clearly you have a formula that works. But I was merely commenting that I wish your comment was more helpful, because you clearly have wisdom to share.

Between the two comments of yours that I’ve replied to, you used the first-person “I/me/mine” 39 times. Take that for what you will.

If you were to go back in time to a younger version of yourself, what advice might you have offered about life?

Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder about something.

Why education? Because I was told by teachers I would never amount to anything and I dropped out of school.

I wouldn't say anything to my younger self. I'd just kick my younger self's ass for wasting time and opportunity and listening to adults.

There you go, you can add a few more I/me/mine's to your total count.

> Clearly you have a formula that works.

I/me/mine literally gave you a formula that works. In plain English. At least for I/me/mine. And you wish the comment were more helpful?

> If anything, I'd say getting a formal education beyond high school is probably the most worthless thing I've ever done in my life to advance my career.

Thus, it begs the question - why did you pursue 5 master’s degrees? Was anything you learned worthwhile to your life? If not, why did you pursue them?

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