Kelsey Hightower

Maybe it was the wrong class that I took.

There's so many factors that could have went into this.

But when I looked at it, none of the people that at the time that I was looking up to, this is not the path that they seem to be taking.

And so I had enough of school, right?

If you're 18 at that time, you're like, look, that's enough of this.

Because at the time, I kind of felt school was this, because it was so easy for me, actually.

You know, it's like it was easy to get straight A's.

I didn't feel like there was a serious challenge.

So it's like, hey, I want to go and do four more years of this.

And I would later learn that, look, bachelor's is a lot of the similar that you go through K through 12.

You kind of remember stuff.

You listen to the lessons.

But then master's, you challenge the material.

And of course, if you make it to PhD, ideally, you're adding something new to the field.

And I never saw anyone that has made it that far.

So I never put that in part of my calculus.

So, but just having that immediate feedback loop of like getting this A-plus certification and feeling like, oh, I'm ready to participate in the actual economy, the ecosystem.

So to me, I was like, this seems like a better path.

And it felt like a path that I would control.

Yeah.