love seeing different folks’ trajectories… 

my career path (qc with yours):

(freelancer writer throughout)

1. ESL tutor
2. waitress
3. wildland firefighter & day laborer
4. professional athlete
5. very small business owner
6. senior brand copywriter @ tech startup (while running v small biz)
7. unemployed and straight up hustling 
8. small business owner (growth!)
9. BABE

1. Webdev/IT for a family friend's small biz
2. IT consultant at Facebook
3. Microscopy research assistant & software developer for tech transfer startup
4. Microscopy & computer vision ML intern
4. Research & Teaching assistantships in BCI & compchem
5. Software Engineer in EDA

I do wish I had more sales experience, Mormons get a lot of this when going on missionary trips.

Future #6 is wannabe bartender / mixologist.

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

Made https://reality.eth.link. 

Live in Mashiko, Japan. Mainly skeet about goats.

Also on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/goat.navy

Chatting to a Mormon randomly in Taipei I was thinking we need some kind of secular liberal missionary program where you send kids to some random country and they have to go  door-to-door explaining the theory of comparative advantage