Learning How Not to Be Useless by Adam Pedroso-Costantini
Summary
I was lucky to have amazing managers and people around me who had the patience and wisdom to help me build the foundation of my professional career. Luckily, VIA helped me by providing accommodation, and my manager made sure I had everything I needed, or would point me in the right direction when I was lost. I thought large companies and corporations were scary, immovable and incomprehensible creatures that eat employees and cash for breakfast. All anxiety about if I was studying in the right major or if I were taking the right classes would have been avoided if school would tell its students, “hey, learn how to read and write very well and you’ll be fine”. Reading, learning and thinking critically have been my saving grace in this confusing and daunting marketing world of embedded chipsets and advanced transportation solutions.