I had an affluent start to life, growing up in one of the richest households in the world. My great grandfather made a large fortune by making smart business deals and our army of trusted financial firms continued to grow his wealth into the 21st largest family fortune in the world, according to Forbes' list anyway. While my family had loads of money, my parents decided that I needed to work my way through life and so I went to school and graduated in 2012 with honors from Middlebury College, a small liberal arts school in Vermont, with a degree in computer science. After I completed that program, I was recruited and accepted a job at a management consulting firm that was headquartered down south in the lovely state of Virginia. My company was large, pulling in well over $5 billion in revenue annually. Those types of numbers don’t happen by accident. We were great at what we did, making the rich richer and the elite more powerful.
My company did business with our beloved national government, after all, that’s why I accepted the position in the first place. I had a feeling that the government was hiding secrets from the general public and I intended to find out what they were. That’s why I had worked so hard in school, spending the weekends slaving over code, trying to understand the intricacies of computer language. Even after I graduated, I worked hard to develop my skills. Not to brag or anything but I quietly became one of the best computer scientists in the world. I beleive it would be accurate to say that I looked something like this for most of my life:
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