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* I never graduated college but somehow ended up working for google * I survived and kept a roof over 3 kids and a wife while only making 10'000 one year. (in
by zaphar 17y ago
* I never graduated college but somehow ended up working for google
* I survived and kept a roof over 3 kids and a wife while only making 10'000 one year. (in USA)
--- Did the same with 4-5 kids while technically homeless and out of work.
* I'm raising 5 amazing children with an incredible wife
* I've taught myself C, Java, Perl, PHP, ASP, Erlang, Lisp, HTML, CSS, Javascript
* I'm a born again christian (Actually the thing I'm most proud of although I know not impressive to some, But it is a brag thread so I'm including it.)
- hendler 17y agoI love that coding/startup culture gives hard working smart people like you an opportunity to self-learn and rise.
- jrockway 17y agoAnd you have an excellent taste in coffee ;)
- zaphar 17y agoIntelligentsia in Chicago. Only the best my friend :-)
- malbiniak 17y agoIntelligentsia isn't bad, but there's always Metropolis and Asado :)
- zaphar 17y agohaven't tried them where they located? Not to hijack the thread but I love good coffee.
- jrockway 17y agoMetropolis and Asado are kind of hard to get to if you don't live on the North Side. Intelligentsia is nice for those of us who live/work in the loop.
- yanowitz 17y agoMetropolis is worth the hike. They serve a great macchiato (a real one, not a starbucks monstrosity). I love any place that will throw away a shot if it doesn't look perfect.
- jrockway 17y agoI will head up there sometime soon. But just for the sake of completeness, I will note that Intelligentsia would do the same thing. Every time I walk in, I feel like I am in Seattle. And for coffee, that's a good thing. (One time, a friend of mine who is from Seattle ended up behind me in line. I wondered for a second what city I was in :)
- zaphar 17y agowow I'm surprised I got so many upvotes. Compared to saving a life and child prodigies I'm not really all that impressive. There are plenty of others on here deserving of much higher ratings than me.