This Book Helped Me Change My Life ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho How

PINAR TURGUT
3 min readAug 25, 2023

As a young woman, I felt torn between my own passion for computer science and my parents’ desire for me to study business. Wanting to please them and make them proud, I enrolled in a business program and began working for an insurance company during my college years. Although I found some success in the field, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing from my life.

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