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A freshman orientation changed everything.

The head of the English department walked in and said if you’re going to be a journalist you need three things. Write the truth. Tell both sides. And have your own blog or nobody will publish you.
I asked myself how do you build a blog.

That question led me to WordPress. Late nights. Hookah smoke. Teaching myself everything I could while everyone else was asleep. I’d learn something new at night and build it the next day at the mortgage company where I had my own office, my own iMac and zero supervision.

I turned a brochure website into a full loan officer assistant. Built the whole thing in WordPress with Gravity Forms handling the application process end to end.

That job was my college. The meetup was my community. WPWatercooler was my voice.
Everything else followed.