my career path (quote cast with yours!):

1) investment banking (fintech)
2) structured finance (cmbs: commercial mortgage-backed securities)
3) online advertising, startups (search + display operations & optimization)
4) online advertising, public company (display media sales)
5) growth marketing consultant, startups
6) live mobile streaming influencer/content creation
7) founder (elementus, social forensics)

my career path (qc with yours):

1) self-employed dev, making websites for schools and profs
2) relief superintendent in my 30-floor condo building (glorified janitor)
3) lead on tineye.com (first real job after graduating, one of the largest AWS customers at the time, launched the initial product, eventually led a migration to an inhouse racks before leaving reducing costs by x10)
4) brief 23andme tenure (paid for my relocation to silicon valley)
5) founded imoveyou (YC S2010)
6) founded socialgrapple (acquihired by Google to work on Google+ Analytics)
7) founded briefmetrics (my SaaS era, google analytics in your email inbox every monday)
8) independent contractor, worked with many early stage startups (worked with docker, pinterest, keybase, infura, lots of big names when they were still tiny)
9) independent open source developer (maintaining lots of popular projects, like urllib3, ssh-chat, etc while also building ethereum infrastructure like vipnode, whatsabi, etc)