I quit my job a year ago and here is what I learned so far

I decided to quit my job in June 2020 and after about a year of joblessness, here is what I've learned.


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REACH OUT TO ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA


Web: www.engineeringwithutsav.com/
www.instagram.com/utsavized (personal)

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
00:38 Mechanical Keyboard Giveaway
01:22 Working hard
02:23 Learning new things
04:00 Our quantitative evaluation bias
06:42 Lack of structure
09:38 Human interactions
11:05 The financial epiphany

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