From July 2018 to November 2018, I made two bad decisions. One was working in a company near our house. It was just a fifteen minute walk. I was referred by my high school friend here and because I trusted him, I accepted their offer instead of Accenture's. Although Accenture offers a bit more, I did not want to commute two to three hours so I chose this. But the environment was so bad. I was bullied here because they found out that I interned for Solutions Resource. Some of my co-workers there apparently worked here and made a mess where even legal was involved. I was not allowed to touch the repository because they cannot trust me. They gave me instructions drawn in a crumpled paper and said that I need to build this part of the application from scratch, submit it to them, and they will be the one to merge it. But I have no access to the codebase so I do not really know how I could accomplish that task. Another bad decision was to work with an agency. They deployed me to a company that I did not know was a "networking" (pyramiding scheme) company. My first task was to QA their systems in a country somewhere in Africa after the government decided to ban them from the country. I had to make sure the systems were properly shutdown and all the data was properly backed-up. There was also a big demonstration in India because someone took his own life after losing all his money investing in their program. I left these two companies immediately. During these five months I was worried about my future and regretted decision no. 1 too much.

I was conflicted whether I should pursue arts or tech but I finally settled with tech. I took the Information Technology course in AMA Computer University as during this time, it was famous for producing highly-skilled tech workers. But in my experience, the education and technology was way below my expectations. But I met a lot of my life-long friends here and I had the best batchmates where while there were certain groups that have formed throughout the years, we were never divided and respected the interests of each other. It was the opposite of high school where a huge divide exist between each groups because of conflicts in religion and interests. Elitism and bullying was rampant.