You have to approach this drawing a distinction between learning a skill and joining a community.
If you joined this community college program in Ottawa to learn a trick or two about programming, you approached it with the right mindset. You approached it looking for technical improvement.
It sounds like, however, you joined the program looking for rock stars. If Ottawa was a technology startup focused town, you'd know it already - there would be technology startups. Environment is so critical.
I come from another government town (Washington, DC) and there are a significant number of absolutely brilliant people here...who want nothing to do with a tech startup. They're government employees, or contractors, or even just policy wonks. That's not a slight against their intelligence; it's just that the culture in DC is not geared toward startups while Silicon Valley is.
There's not going to be an easy way or good time to rip yourself away from Ottawa - it's going to be frustrating and probably won't be an easy move. But if that's what you want to do, you'll have to find a way.
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You have to approach this drawing a distinction between learning a skill and joining a community.
If you joined this community college program in Ottawa to learn a trick or two about programming, you approached it with the right mindset. You approached it looking for technical improvement.
It sounds like, however, you joined the program looking for rock stars. If Ottawa was a technology startup focused town, you'd know it already - there would be technology startups. Environment is so critical.
I come from another government town (Washington, DC) and there are a significant number of absolutely brilliant people here...who want nothing to do with a tech startup. They're government employees, or contractors, or even just policy wonks. That's not a slight against their intelligence; it's just that the culture in DC is not geared toward startups while Silicon Valley is.
There's not going to be an easy way or good time to rip yourself away from Ottawa - it's going to be frustrating and probably won't be an easy move. But if that's what you want to do, you'll have to find a way.