professional-story-draft.md

I moved from small town Vermont to Austin, Texas when I was 17 with no idea what I wanted to do for a living or what I wanted to study. I started with a plan to get a degree in economics but quickly realized I only did so because I felt like I needed to stay on this make-believe set timeline for your education. After bartending to put me through those school years, I began managing multiple venues. This role was far out of my comfort zone which is the exact reason I fell in love with the industry. Although I wouldn't trade that experience for the world, I did eventually realize that I no longer had that drive to move up in the companies I worked for. I started to miss being constantly challenged. I began thinking about what I wanted my next steps in life to be and ended up falling in love all over again, but this time with the tech industry. I decided to move to Colorado to attend Turing where I began to feel that rush of constructive stress again. Every day I come home knowing more, and also realizing that there will always be another ocean of knowledge that I haven't even dipped my toes in yet. Being sincerely challenged every day you go to work, in my perspective, is a privelage. Moving forward from school into the workforce, I can only hope that I can continue to get that growth.

Hi Zoe, I appreciate how you're very concise with your points here to get the reader to the point where I understand your transition to tech very quickly. You mention falling in love with the tech industry -- what was the moment that that happened? What was it like? You talk about how you love learning and being in this fast-paced environment, but I think there are a few more threads you could pull out here to help the reader understand even more why software is going to fulfill you rather than the other jobs you've had. A way to approach this might be to think about the things you want to do in this career and include that in your story as well. Let me know if you'd like to talk through this further!