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by bb611 2079 days ago
> I'd imagine for most of his peers from high school he's considered a disappointment for working at "only" AWS

I went to school at about the same time at the other high school in town (technically 2 towns, 1 combined school district), my family mostly still lives there. A job across the country in a well known tech company is reasonably top 25% of the class or so. Not standout, but nothing to be embarrassed about, and that's where plenty of us ended up.
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lowiqengineer 2079 days ago
If your parents don't talk about it (as mine don't, presumably because they're ashamed?) I don't know if it's "nothing to be embarrassed about".

What did the top 1% do? What did your valedictorian(s) do?

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bb611 2078 days ago
Hilariously enough, my class' Valedictorian is now an ML Engineer on Amazon Echo.

I wasn't answering the question of "what will their parents think", I was just pointing out the reaction of our peers because I grew up in the same community. Parental reaction is typically much more about them as people than any other particular factor.

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