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After 3 Years On Upwork, Here’s Why It No Longer Works For Me

Design Business, Journey

September 25, 2023

In the beginning of my business journey, I had to make something happen from nothing. I had no clients and no real world experience designing anything for an actual client, and because of previously working in an industry totally unrelated to design, I had no network to really lean into for clients. For many, this […]

College wasn’t for me. But here’s what I did to start my tech career.

Design Business, Education

January 1, 2022

I didn’t go to college because I didn’t see the point. You couldn’t convince 18 years old Rae that there was a better thing to learn than a new language and I didn’t need college to achieve that. A coding immersive got me to my goal much faster than a traditional computer science degree.