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Justin Flint, 27, dropped out of college in 2019 and took a job at a factory. After inventing a fix while employed on the assembly line, he was promoted to software developer. Now, Flint works as a ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Justin Flint, 27, a software engineer at an oven manufacturing factory near Seattle, Washington. His employment and progression has been verified ...