Excel Durant

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[Excel Durant @DurantExcel]

So this is what I am currently working on. It has been a month already since I started.
I will be documenting my journey working on this for future reference. I think I from the future will find this interesting
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STORYTIME:

my wife and I met doing a certain music activity after high school. We went to separate high schools and did not know each other during this story.

The music activity I am referring to is like the NBA, but for music. It's a dream come true to be able to do this activity. Synonymous to getting a job in FAANG tbh.

I did it all 4 years of high school and continued immediately after, having a fun "career" and I made a ton of friends.

She did 4 years but stopped after high school and took a two year break, not knowing she would want to return eventually.

But the time you have is limited. You only have until the age of 21 to do the activity.

That break after high school ruined all her skills. She had to start from scratch. She was 19, so she had only three years left because of a technicality.

She walked into a local music store to buy drum sticks and she bumped into one of the best performers in the activity, who just so happened to work there. That performer (Ella) offered to mentor my wife. $50 an hour for lessons.

Ella was honest and said "you will not make it this year. you need to work hard and you will have a chance next year. go to the auditions to learn what its like, but do not expect to make it"

so my wife practiced for a year, went to auditions, and did not make it into any group. Only two seasons left now to make her dreams come true.

The following year, she was good enough that Ella recommended her to a decent group, where she knew the head instructor (Bill) and told him "Her rate of improvement is good. Keep an eye out for her and let me know what you think".

Ella prepared my wife again, saying that she should not expect to make it.

My wife goes to the auditions and sees that the entire section she was auditioning for ( 5 spots ) was basically a group of friends. Every spot was basically taken, but not decided just yet. That group of friends all expected to make it because they knew each other. they knew some of the instructors, and they were good enough.

Each audition had a one month gap in between the next audition.

January, February, March, then April was the last audition. The candidate pool started at 40 people.. then 20, then 10, then 7... each audition my wife was told that she needed to improve on certain parts of her skillset. The group of friends noticed she kept getting called back to the auditions... one of the members in the friend group asked her "Why are you even here?", telling her that she wasn't going to make it.

They even said "It's cute when people stick around for this long thinking they have a chance."

My wife ignored what they said. In between each audition she would work three jobs and practice on her spare time. 60 hours of work, 30 hours of practice, and only resting when she needed to.

April audition, on the last day, Bill placed her up in the section during the last moments of the audition. This is typically done as a pity "thank you for being here" before the final group is set. Bill walks up to her, says a few words, and my wife starts crying.

As my wife walks back to her seat, the same member who asked her why she was there, told her "It's ok, you have one more year left after this and maybe you'll get in."

She looks up and tells him that she got in. She made it. She earned the last spot.

Bill said that her rate of improvement was enough to take a risk on. I don't want to lie and say the season was all sunshine and rainbows, but she definitely appreciated being there and earning her spot. She spent that summer living out her dreams as best she could.

I met her the following season during the winter version of the music activity, hearing murmurs about her work ethic, watching her audition for a different group that I was already a part of. I saw her skills and I told our head instructor that I wanted her in the group so we offered her a spot and that is how we met.

I didn't know about her story until after we left the activity a few years later (2016 is when we finished completely). It was a huge source of motivation and she's been my "Ella" ever since.

When ChatGPT came out and I was barely graduating, she told me that I have to compete with all the senior devs that just got laid off and those that there will continue to be layoffs. She said I need to work 60 hours a week upscaling myself to catch up to everyone else. She was prepared to sacrifice holidays, weekends, and hangouts just so I can make good on my plan of sustaining us.

So I worked hard to be as undeniable as possible. It paid off.

Now I have the network to support me to get into better jobs, the same way I helped her.

But the root of it is the undeniable work ethic that it takes to get there. You need to work until you are undeniably the best at what you do. Then, maybe your network can help sustain you to the next level.

Don't even get me started on the story about how she brought her high school band to their first championship in 10 years 🥹

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@AtSynct @marclou @believeapp used to do that using crypto

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@_morijinn How the fight will go:

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

A Japanese manga artist lost his entire Google account forever after he uploaded private files from an old comic he drew to Google Drive.

Google’s AI checked the files and flagged them as not allowed. He asked Google to review it again, but they rejected his appeal and banned the account immediately.

He can no longer access years of his private drawings and lost access to many websites and services that used his Google login.

The artist said this is very embarrassing and causes him a lot of trouble. He warned that it might not happen to people who always follow every rule, but others should be careful.

So Google is scanning files that people upload to its cloud storage even if they are supposed to be private. I wonder how long they have been doing this.

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@webegga Degeneracy will be reserved for the elites

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@Hetzner_Online @SteffenMeilsoe @levelsio

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@Airaxora Look at this

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@djcows 😂

[Christine💫🇨🇲 @Christinedjami3]

Ça s’appelle le « scarcity mindset » si tu refuses d’accepter qu’il y a l’argent au pays, tu te mets dans une posture où tu ne cherche pas activement a amasser ta part.

Les entrepreneurs qui au contraire, partent du principe réel que l’argent qu’ils veulent est forcément… 1/2

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@izzy_glen23 Nice stuff. I remember building something similar 3 years ago. But couldn't get it off the ground because I was so broke lol. Hope this succeeds. We need this

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@marclou "with my wife" cancels out all the pain lol

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@Son_ImSleep I usually wonder why there are always so few comments from women on these posts. Does it imply what's being said is so true that they don't feel the need to give an opinion or a counter-argument?

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@ledevnovice 🙋‍♂️

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@owen_venter This is so true

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@Emarged They do it for the love of the game

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@KILLTOPARTY Either she's super intelligent or extremely dumb. No in-between

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@landryyomi 😂😂

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@__savastano 😂😂😂😂😂

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@Ewatomiby Does it pay my bills?