Write a draft of your professional story here as 1-2 paragraphs. Focus on answering the questions who are you, why are you here, and what’s next? Consider how to talk about your motives and values, the turning points that led to your career change, and what you envision for yourself going forward.
The last job I had before entering Turing was on the client team of a SAAS agency that built landing pages for startup companies and their ad traffic. I thought the idea was brilliant, the technology and data driven performance decisions we made was inspiring. I also loved that I had tons of clients because it provided a variety of challenges and I was able to learn about all sorts of industries.
There was one major problem - I didn't like being on the client team. There was a huge disconnect between what our sales team was advertising and the actual product our developers had the scope to manage, and I, as the client team member, represented that disconnect to our clients. It felt unfair, but there weren't a ton of ways to actually make meaningful change over it. I started looking over the shoulders of our web designers and out developers and decided that I wanted to try out one of these trades. The developers challenges looked more dynamic though and the ceiling of what they could do and the autonomy they had was much higher.
I started taking classes on Treehouse to see if I would actually like the work, and I did! Choosing Turing was an easy decision. If I was going to change fields, I wanted to go all in and Turing's program was the longest and most intensive I saw out there.
I don't specifically know what industry I want to be in when I graduate, but that indecision was part of the reason I wanted to become a software programmer - you don't have to be tied down to an industry in order to make progress in your craft. I want to be deep in the trenches of coding to start, but a few years later, I'll want to be a bit hands off the keys and focus on managing a team and business.