Saying yes when my neighbor asked me if I wanted to go out to party with him and the girl next to him I hadn’t seen before.

Because of her I said yes (although I wasn’t in the mood to go out at that moment), and now she’s my wife, we have kids, I moved to where she lived, became self-employed, and we bought a house together.

Just because of that yes. Try to say yes to invites, people.

Get rid of toxic people, no matter if they're family or not.
Get a job that's low stress instead of high income.

i went back to school. just got my degree about 2 months ago. heading back got me the job i have now.

Believing in myself. When I was in high school, I decided that I wanted to go to an Ivy League college. I figured I was just as capable as anyone else that went to those schools, I just needed to get there. But my guidance counselor refused to write the recommendation letter bc nobody at my school had ever gone to an out-of-state college before. I had to have a parent-teacher conference to get the letter approved. Fast forward to now, I’ve since finished college at an Ivy and now ~5% of each graduating class from my high school attends and Ivy for college. Turns out we were more than capable of doing it; someone just had to do it first.

During my first internship in my second year of studies, I decided to stick with the company and move to part time studying.

I essentially got a devops education in parallel with my software engineering education, which I feel has set me up for life for employment. Also helps that I really enjoy the work I do.

Wow, that’s a huge change!

Do you also take allergy medication or was the move all you needed for the symptoms to subside?

You know, your question got me thinking, and it honestly feels like I’m pretty much nowhere at this point. I wonder what this kind of biggest action thing it is going to be for me.

I attended a programming bootcamp. Almost tripled my income in 6 months.