Academy AF Snaps Compton City Snapback Hat Cap - All Black - One Size

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And so even though I didn’t hate Compton, I knew what everyone else outside of Compton thought about my city, and I didn’t want the negative stigma around Compton and around growing up in the hood to impact my career as I was seeking to establish myself as a software engineer, and as a developer, as a programmer working in corporate America. But the idea is that you want to bring your best self to work—those things that are going to help you do your job well and help you work on a team. I wear my hat is a way of embracing my history and my legacy, and it reminds me of where I come from. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I saw myself as so different from everyone else that I couldn’t see that I had more in common with everyone else than I did differences. And so I wear my hat as proof to them that it’s possible to get as far as I’ve come and even farther to places that previously were uninhabited by people like me. If you take away anything from this video, I hope that you will be inspired to share your story and your journey with someone who’s different from you. Nowadays, companies talk about bringing your best self to work, and what they mean by that is that you—as an individual, as an employer, as a worker— should be able to bring those aspects of you that sort of go outside the bounds of just the skills that you bring to the table.

By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I love hearing about how people have come from wherever they’ve come from to be where they are today. The result is an unmatched softness, breathability and color vitality, all which make it destined to be a HOOD hat. It was something that I needed to embrace, because Compton is the place where I learned scrappiness and hard work and perseverance and teamwork and all of these things that make me Googley.

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