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Anna Simoroshka

I spent 5 years in university, got my degree with honours, and promised to myself never touch anything code related ever again. Or get myself into another degree. It was too much stress for too long and I was completely burnt out. The studying process was not very well organised, the courses and topics were far from the reality, my first part-time job in web dev was a disaster. There weren't any options for programming work in my town that would be even remotely interesting (or even paid well). I had been depressed for 2 years at that point.
So I ran and I got an office job. After a year it started being boring as hell, I recovered, and found myself on a quest to change everything, including country. The easiest option for moving was to get into a university, and with my background it could pretty much be only CS. Second time it wasn't so bad. :)