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I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

— Shane Carruth

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.

— Jon Evans

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

— Laura Lippman

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens.

— JWoww

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment.

— Alastair Reynolds

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

— Richard Powers

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

— Rodney Brooks

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.

— Jonathan Hickman

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

— Dean Karnazes

I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.

— Cindy Morgan