The day after Valentine's Day, rather fittingly, marked the day of my departure from the tedium of suburban life and the career ladder. Not that I hadn't enjoyed my first taste of being a worker drone. After the monotony of studying for 4 1/2 years I welcomed the chance to just be a cog in the machine, mainly just because a 9-5 schedule can actually give you a greater feeling of freedom than one where a deadline is always looming. The only real problem with my cog was that it wasn't big enough. And whatever it was connected to, way far away in my future, wouldn't be quite as impressive as I'd hoped. So after sticking it out for the mandatory year I decided to jump ship. Well I shouldn't say I jumped. I wasn't pushed,
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