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Colton Masi checked off every box in his quest to land a good job in the computer science industry after college.
The 23-year-old attended Drexel University, a Philadelphia school distinguished by its focus on real-life job experience. And he majored in software engineering, a discipline he had been hearing his whole life was synonymous with stable, high-paying work. It was all part of his plan to avoid the fate that befell so many millennials after the Great Recession.
“When I was 1...
                                                        
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