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Randall Jordan

Had been working in construction for about 10 years when 2008 housing crisis hit. Got let go. I knew before that happened I did not want to be doing construction anymore but I had nothing in my skill set that I could utilize to move to another career. So after getting a low skill job I started back to school part time for a computer science degree. Was not totally sure what I was getting into, but I had a bit of experience altering scripts that people had written for some online games I was playing, and I enjoyed that. I am now working as software engineer, and just celebrated my 5th year anniversary at the company I am employed. Never really felt like I wanted to do UI work, but have found it not all that bad, especially when I get to work the whole stack.