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diff --git a/content/entry/my-career-path.md b/content/entry/my-career-path.md index 4249e95..050aa15 100644 --- a/content/entry/my-career-path.md +++ b/content/entry/my-career-path.md @@ -18,16 +18,16 @@ After I started attending SIUe, I found a job working for the IT department ther ## Unraveling Career-wise, my life was going pretty smoothly. The moment that changed was when my coworker accidentally red-pilled me by mentioning a name: Richard Stallman. From there, I did some research, learned about free software, became privy to the ethics of computing, and the rest is history. You can read about the rest in the very first posts of my blog: -[Inception - Rejecting Discord, Draw.io and Visual Studio](../../../../2020/03/30/inception-rejecting-discord-drawio-and-visual-studio) -[Rejecting Discord and Google Colab](../../../../2020/03/30/rejecting-discord-and-google-colab) -[Rejecting Visual Studio](../../../../2020/04/30/rejecting-visual-studio) -[The Tipping Point - Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser and The Lockdown Monitor](../../../../2020/03/30/the-tipping-point-rejecting-windows-zoom-lockdown-browser-and-the-lockdown-monitor) +[Inception - Rejecting Discord, Draw.io and Visual Studio](/2020/03/30/inception-rejecting-discord-drawio-and-visual-studio) +[Rejecting Discord and Google Colab](/2020/03/30/rejecting-discord-and-google-colab) +[Rejecting Visual Studio](/2020/04/30/rejecting-visual-studio) +[The Tipping Point - Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser and The Lockdown Monitor](/2020/03/30/the-tipping-point-rejecting-windows-zoom-lockdown-browser-and-the-lockdown-monitor) In short, it was causing me a lot of stress trying to avoid proprietary software while getting my degree. When Covid hit, it was a major catalyst for proprietary software. Using proprietary software became mandatory for remote test-taking. It dawned on me that there would be no way for me to complete my computer science degree, or any degree for that matter, in freedom even after talking with professors and the department chair about the issue. Even without Covid, which at the time had no end in sight, there would be no guarantee that I could complete mandatory classes in freedom, something I grew increasingly opposed to making compromises on. I was totally demoralized having put so much effort into my classes just to realize I wouldn't be able to pass them without installing multiple forms of malware on my computer to take tests. I wasn't going to retake classes every time a freedom issue got in the way. The situation became too much. It was unsustainable, so I dropped out and also had to quit my job for similar reasons: -[Why I Left ITS](../../../../2020/07/02/why-i-left-its/) +[Why I Left ITS](/2020/07/02/why-i-left-its/) So that's the overview. It has been over a year and some months since all that took place and since I decided to blog about it. If you're a long-time reader, you've already read about it and you're probably wondering what I've been doing since then. So the next section will be new information. |