S4E6 - Dreams, Degrees, and Defining Moments

The one about career crossroads.

On this episode, we reunited with @theolamideoladeji, a former classmate of ours from secondary school. Olamide is currently a PhD candidate at Stanford University. He’s also running a tech startup based in Palo Alto.

We began by discussing the earliest #career path we remember wanting to follow as students, dating all the way back to secondary school and undergrad.

Tracing our professional paths back to our educational backgrounds kind of made us question the correlation between where we are now and what we spent 4+ years of higher education studying for.

In hindsight, we realised that the discipline one chooses to study in formal education is mostly a gamble, since there is a lot of evidence out there that suggests many of us get to the final step of formal education and realise we want a different path.

We also spoke about what we would do differently if we could go back in time to change our educational and professional trajectories.

We concluded with the role passion has to play in all of this, as well as trying to highlight the different people, events, and experiences that at the time were insignificant, but ended up serving as huge tipping points in shaping our professional trajectories to date.

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