Professional Story, Draft #1 Submissions

Professional Story, Draft #1 Submissions

I come from a substabtial history in music education. Over my 13 year career I found that the three things I loved the most
were the relationships I got to build with each individual student, the autonomy I had in comparison to my colleages just by 
being a "Specials" teacher, and the opportunity each piece of music we studied offered in terms of practicing, revision and
performance. Over the years NCLB painted many of us into a corner with higher expectations and fewer resources and I was left
with so much resentment in my heart that I knew I needed to be brave and look elsewhere to find a renewed sense of purpose.

I looked at many different career paths, but none of them had the autonomy, community and financial stability I knew I needed
in order to justify leaving music education. Until a friend told me about Turing. It seemed that software development had the
potential to put me in contact with diverse groups of people where I could exercise a similar process of creativity and
perfection in a fairly autonomus space. 

Hey Mills,

I appreciate how you've outlined what you enjoyed about teaching and your motives for making a change. I would recommend spelling out No Child Left Behind if you're going to mention it specifically as some people may not be familiar with the abbreviation. Also, in your second paragraph as you discuss how you've found what you're searching for in software development, I would also recommend adding in something about what you hope to contribute to this industry in addition to what you'll benefit from with it. Overall, great start here!