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Programmer reflects on wishing she had gone to art school

Original: If I could do it all over again, I would have loved to go to art school instead of becoming a programmer. Thinking back,

A Greece-raised programmer is reflecting online on the road not taken, saying that if she could do it over again she would have chosen art school instead of a career in coding. She explains there were no private art schools in Greece in the early 1990s and her parents were not supportive of the idea, leaving her no real opportunity to pursue art. The candid post about career regret and family expectations is drawing sympathetic responses.

Why now: Candid reflections on career regret and parental expectations resonate widely, especially among tech workers.

Eugenia LoliGreece

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• If I could do it all over again, I would have loved to go to art school instead of becoming a programmer. Thinking back, there were simply no opportunities for me to do that. There were no private art schools in Greece in the early '90s, and my parents were not supportive… · eugenialoli · 34

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