Thank You/Brandon Harris. It's that simple. Most jobs I've had? I wake up and think, "Ugh, I've got to go to work. " This job? I wake up and think, "Awesome! I get to go to work! " There is no way to describe that feeling that will do it justice. Education is the silver bullet to all of the world's problems. The cure for cancer may very well be locked inside the brain of an impoverished child in Bangladesh or a village on the Amazon. With access to free knowledge we can cure diseases. I am not embellishing anything. If you think you can do these things, if you think that this is what you want out of life — to make a real difference instead of making some investors richer — then you should think of working with Wikimedia. — Brandon Harris Brandon Harris is originally from West Virginia and moved to San Francisco in 1994.
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