PD - Professional Story

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Professional Story

I'm one of the many people in the world that my professional life doesn't match what I went to college for. I've always found joy in interacting with people, building relationships and connecting. After college, I landed in sales, mainly becuase it was the easier path at the time. I found it easy to quickly connect with people, find their pain points, and build value in the solutions I could offer. As the years went on, I grew very tired of making sales calls, trying to get people to buy things that we both knew they didn't want. It wore me down. Where I thrived was as my time as lead trainer. I found my passion of helping and seeing others succeed. It was problem solving on a human level. My job was to build a valuable sales rep, and I took great joy in figuring out how to make them succeed. I knew I wanted to solve problems every day, and not make sales calls. A friend of mine has been a software engineer for about 10 years, so I got a small amount of exposure to it through him, and the more I learned about what that career has to offer, the more intriguing it became. I could spend my days working on a team to build something great, and solve problems. I wanted to use my brain to think critically, and build things. My first few weeks at Turing have not disappointed. It's the most amount of stimulation I've experienced in some time, and I love how I'm forced to think critically every day. My goal is to become a team lead for a software development team, so I can teach, lead and cultivate great developers, all the while building amazing things and bringing joy to people's lives.

I like the thread of relationships/connecting/leading. It might be a good idea to include an intermediate goal before team lead. 'I want to contribute and learn all I can from this industry, with the eventual goal to become a team lead...'