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Learning to Build Without a Ladder

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I never got the junior job. Not for lack of trying. I spent well over a year applying, building, learning, and applying again. For long stretches I could not get past the first filter, let alone into a room with an engineer. And I am not unusual. I am one of a very large group of people who entered…

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    Learning to Build Without a Ladder

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