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With Caitlyn Greffly: It's Like Being Paid to Go to School and Make Cool Things Forever

Caitlyn didn't want to go back and get a degree "at my age", but went to Thinkful to learn to be a full-stack software engineer, which is "like being paid to go to school and make cool things forever." It's hard to tell what to focus on when there's so much to learn. "It used different muscles in my brain," she says, as she "learn[ed] to work from a place of frustration." And in the end, "it's either a good time or a good story!" For show notes and links, see: http://justtheusefulbits.com/jtub/caitlyn-greffly-paid-to-go-to-school-and-make-cool-things-forever/

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  With Larry Orton: Getting Started and Standing Out

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  With Tobi Pfeiffer: So Many Languages

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  With Ross Kaffenberger: Teaching, WebPacker and Paradigms

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  With Craig Petterson: Buzzwords, Pina Coladas and Centaur Chess

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  With Akien McIain: Test Automation Engineering

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  With Andrew Owen: the Culture of Programming -- If You're Raised by Missio…

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  With Andrew Mason: I Expected College to be Basically Boot Camp

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  With Shai Schechter: Hustle Hard, Do What's Practical

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  With Jennifer Tran: Coding Paradigms, the Satisfaction of Studying and Uns…

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  With Ernesto Tagwerker: Learning Programming, Business and Management

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  With John Pavan: Coming to Programming from Nuclear Physics

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  With Chris Seaton: On Ph.Ds and Software Apprenticeships

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  With Michael Dominick: Your Duck Was the Only Thing That Company Had Going…

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  With George Sheppard: On Security, UML and What's More Important than Money

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  With Jared White: the Trip from PHP to Ruby and Beyond