Freelancing, Self-Learning, and the Importance of Choosing Your Projects Wisely

I was at work as a postman. I hated my job, but I had to do it to fund my way through college. Whenever I was on my post walks, I'd listen to interviews of people I admired. One day, I just so happened to be listening to a Bill Gates interview, and someone from the audience asked him what he'd be doing if he hadn't created Microsoft. He responded along the lines of "I'd be testing the limits with Natural Language data," and that he'd be an AI researcher.