A professor's one-line critique redirected my whole path

Back in 2019 at a community college in Dayton, my English professor wrote 'you bury the good stuff' on my essay. I stopped trying to sound smart and just wrote direct, and that's when I actually started enjoying writing, which led me to a copywriting gig without a degree. Has anyone else had a teacher's comment that stuck with them way past the class ended?

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wright.dakota8d ago

Is that really all it took to change your whole life? Like one comment about burying the good stuff and suddenly you're a copywriter without a degree? I mean sure it's a nice thing a teacher said, but tons of professors say random stuff like that every day. Most people don't turn it into a whole career story. Maybe you just needed a little push and the comment happened to be there at the right time. I just think it's funny how we give so much power to one sentence from someone we barely know. But hey, if it worked for you, whatever works.