jessepackwood/Professional Storytelling II

## Professional Storytelling II
I didn't have any guidance or direction after high school so I didn't know what I wanted to do or what path I wanted to take. I got a job working in retail and I found that I enjoyed a specific aspect of business, solving problems. On the sales floor I was asked to identify customer needs and satisfy them the best I could in order to create a positive experience for the customer as well as a sale. The problems I was addressing were small and easy to solve so I worked my way up the ladder quickly. In retail management I was asked to solve bigger problems like how to improve sales, motivate team members, and strengthen loss prevention.
  This was exciting but I realized an education would get benefit me greatly if I chose to continue to work in retail. I decided to go to college for business and I found myself working on the same problems that I had experienced at my jobs before. I switched my major to economics so I could finally think about problems on a global scale like poverty, human rights, and inequality. As I examined all of these issues, I found technology being a major player in the improvement of all of these problems. After receiving my degree I took a year off to reflect on the direction I wanted to take for my life and I decided that learning how to write software and use it as a tool for change was something I was passionate about.
   Now that I'm at Turing I can continue to solve problems every day and eventually start writing software that will solve problems on a bigger scale than I've imagined. I foresee myself working for a company that is passionate about benefiting their local community as well as the society as a whole.
	I didn't have any guidance or direction after high school so I didn't know what I wanted to do or what path I wanted to take. I got a job working in retail and I found that I enjoyed a specific aspect of business, solving problems. On the sales floor I was asked to identify customer needs and satisfy them the best I could in order to create a positive experience for the customer as well as a sale. The problems I was addressing were small and easy to solve so I worked my way up the ladder quickly. In retail management I was asked to solve bigger problems like how to improve sales, motivate team members, and strengthen loss prevention.
	This was exciting but I realized an education would get benefit me greatly if I chose to continue to work in retail. I decided to go to college for business and I found myself working on the same problems that I had experienced at my jobs before. I switched my major to economics so I could finally think about problems on a global scale like poverty, human rights, and inequality. As I examined all of these issues, I found technology being a major player in the improvement of all of these problems. After receiving my degree I took a year off to reflect on the direction I wanted to take for my life and I decided that learning how to write software and use it as a tool for change was something I was passionate about.
	Now that I'm at Turing I can continue to solve problems every day and eventually start writing software that will solve problems on a bigger scale than I've imagined. I foresee myself working for a company that is passionate about benefiting their local community as well as the society as a whole.