I just got Masters and I want to express my gratitude to you all. If it wasn’t for this forum, I never could have gotten the Masters Qual. This wasn’t something that I did on my own. Everyone here helped. Having a collaborative environment like this one where people share, sacrifice and help each other out makes a huge difference.
Ever since I joined the forum, I have been constantly amazed at the sophistication, talent, skill sets and contributions that I see here everyday that go unremarked and taken as simply “everyday". It is more than just everyday. It is special.
Taking on the self-assigned task of learning how to code, creating a mentoring system and an environment in which people are given the space to learn without fear of criticism, building scripts not for personal benefit, but for everyone’s benefit. And where else would you see workers willing to be transparent enough to share the details of their paychecks every week. Definitely not in a professional environment or between competing salespeople in a “sophisticated” corporate culture.
What is happening here is laying the groundwork for the future of what work will look like and this is the cutting edge of it’s evolution. Everyone here has a contribution to make and everyone’s contribution is important even if that simply means reading posts and learning from others. Everyone here matters.
Hope it goes well and you learn a ton! There are a lot of good reading lists and articles on Medium too if you want to get started early.
Keep doing quality work, avoiding rejections and blocks and hopefully one day an email pops up for you.