Finance graduate describes six months learning n8n from scratch
Original title: What I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose
The post is a personal account of leaving tutorial habits to build workflow automations.
A May 2026 Loyola University Chicago finance graduate recounts teaching himself n8n after internships in healthcare financial planning. He describes confusion over nodes, HTTP, APIs, and AI agents, time spent on Reddit, Medium, and YouTube, and a shift toward building workflows himself. The post is a career reflection, not a security or product disclosure.
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10 min read at wvez.orgI graduated from Loyola U Chicago back in May of this year (2026) with a degree in Finance. I also spent four different summers working at a large healthcare company as a Financial Planning and Analysis Intern.
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