{"id":17,"date":"2022-07-13T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/papaya-wp\/?p=17"},"modified":"2024-01-16T07:35:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:35:21","slug":"why-i-launched-papaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papayatutor.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Why I Launched Papaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #1B2C4E;\">How did it all start?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1B2C4E;\">I was over the moon when I received my offer letter from my dream job at Accenture. I got a full time position in Los Angeles CA (another dream) with a starting salary of $90K (including bonuses). It was all a dream, but reaching my goal or dream position was not smooth sailing, I had many obstacles along the way. Let\u2019s talk about one in particular\u2026..Java.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1B2C4E;\">While I was still a student, I decided to take an extra coding class to prepare for the technology world.\u00a0<em>Side note<\/em>:\u00a0<em>I really wish I had a mentor to tell me that programming is not the only skill you need to thrive in the tech world.\u00a0<\/em>I was way too confident in my abilities to study well in advance for classes like Math or Science, so I did the same for JAVA\u2026. And\u2026. let\u2019s just say it was a humbling experience. Java was a whole other language, it seemed like Mandarin to me. I did not understand anything. The class was online, a pre-recorded class with no real human interaction, which made it even worse. So I panicked! I no longer saw my future as bright as I had previously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1B2C4E;\">Other times, I would have waited till it was too late to ask for help, but I could not afford to do so this time. Therefore, I went to my university and tried to find someone that could help me. I found a female tutor who was great, but her availability was limited and her services were too expensive for me. I was a student struggling to put myself through school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1B2C4E;\">Let\u2019s give some context here, so you can understand why I did what I did. I am from Peru, and there is a University for Engineering that is popular for having genius students. People go by foot from other universities to find tutors from there, so I did the same (almost). My little cousin was going there, I asked him to find me someone, which he did. It was the most amazing tutoring experience ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1B2C4E;\">I passed my classes, and my friends asked me for my tutors. I gave them the names of my tutors, and they passed their classes. And the rest is history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1B2C4E;\">Well not quite. I remember feeling almost guilty that he would never have the same opportunities that I did because he did not have parents that could get him a Visa to enter the USA. I felt like he almost deserved that opportunity more than I did. I realized life is not fair. That feeling never left me, and it got bigger and bigger. I quit my job at Accenture last year, and decided to do something for those bright engineering students in underdeveloped countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1B2C4E;\">Papaya Tutor was created to help these amazing students in underdeveloped countries by helping them with jobs, while they help American students primarily from low income, marginalized communities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did it all start? &nbsp; I was over the moon when I received my offer letter from my dream job at Accenture. I got a full time position in Los Angeles CA (another dream) with a starting salary of $90K (including bonuses). 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