Professional Story
After working for roughly 16 years, I have a fairly clear view of my professional goals. I started off as a butcher and learned about what I didn't want to do forever, but stayed in the food industry just with more human interaction as a waiter. After moving away for college I decided to I wanted to be part of the cannabis movement, although it took a while to get in to it. I ultimately ended up working as a consultant for a larger company that needed help running multiple facilities and wanted me to lead the way. As I found myself getting stretched ever thinner I was forced to come up with solutions that could be implemented through more automation. I composed a long list of needs to bring to a programmer with the hopes that I would be able to alleviate some of my work, but I couldn't find anyone that had the balance of industry knowledge and technical skills to execute my requests. After speaking with a close friend that was working as a developer about potentially taking the job, he managed to convince me that the best person to do the job was me. I started looking into what it was going to take to accomplish what I needed to do and as I did my research I only found more reasons to tackle the job. I made plans to keep my history as a consultant and build on that with a new skill set that offers a comprehensive approach to solving some of the more complex issues with compliance and data-enrty and have been building on them since.
Hey Tristan, this is an excellent draft! I can definitely understand what you meant when you said you have a clear idea of your professional goals -- that is in fact very clear as to how you've come to software development. I love this theme of how you work to find the right skills to solve any problem; that will be an important theme to take with you in interview situations to highlight how you can learn new technologies depending on what's needed. Nice job!