Speaker Notes - Relatable Experience
# Speaker Notes - Relatable Experience
People who were teachers at some point before their technical careers:
Episode 174 Episode 175 Dominique Top was in bands, studied music, is a DJ, got a job as a tech recruiter –> tech meetups –> DevOps DevRel and advocate –> Sales Engineer for HashiCorp
Episode 177 Episode 178 Stephanie Wong Went to school for communications and digital humanities (impact of tech on society and culture). She practiced her audio/video production skills in a guerilla podcast; When it came time to apply for a job for developer advocacy, she could apply all her tech skills from being a sales engineer with her communications background to get the job.
Episode 34 Episode 35 Jimmy Tassin said despite lacking industry-specific experience, he had experience in government-regulated industries, which was a positive when interviewing for a financial services industry job. During other times, he was able to draw the paralells between operating a successful Minecraft server and IT administration.
Episode 22 Nick Korte said selling his ideas on solutions at a helpdesk was still selling.
Episode 75 Vendor management as relatable experience for people management (genesis came from episodes with Brad Tompkins)