Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, veteran member Deadline shares his story from struggling with ADHD during high school,

surviving college and finding his niche in healthcare enterprise architecture, how WSO gave him

context on the level of competition

for job interviews, his dramatic jump in pay at his latest role, and some wise advice on career

paths and specialization. Enjoy this one. Deadline, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks for having me, Pat. I appreciate you having me on.

Yeah, so a quick summary of your background would be really helpful.

Yeah, so, you know, should I take it from the background of just career?

Should I kind of start off, you know, how I came about, you know, high school as well, all the way from the beginning.

Yeah, all the way, yeah, all the way back. And then, you know, just quick brush strokes is fine, broad brush strokes. Sure, sure. Yeah, I just want to paint the context because I'm not like a lot of the people that you see, you know, at the Target schools or, you know,

cushy childhood, cushy background like that.

Very much so.

I grew up in Belize, Costa Rica, and a couple other places all over, you know, the geopolitical

landscape.

My father was actually running an internet gambling website when we lived in Costa Rica.

It went belly up,

and we ended up moving back to the states where my parents separated at the time.

So it was very much, you know, growing up real quick, being exposed to a lot of different

diverse countries and whatnot.

So I would not say that I have the traditional upbringing.

And when my parents split, money was always hard growing up. How old were you when they split? How old were you? I was in, geez, six or seventh grade? I don't know how old that makes. Oh, you're pretty young. Yeah. Definitely in the formative years. Yeah, that's young. Okay. So money was tough. Tell me, were you doing jobs, stuff like that?

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