u/starraven wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Hiya Michael! 👋 I don't know if you remember my resume but my first job out of bootcamp was working for an edtech company that had me building a mathematics program used in 6-8th grade classrooms. Being a former teacher, I did my student-teaching in a 6th grade classroom and
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Yeah my thoughts were more theoretical, like if I was running a program or trying to plan for the industry and find systematic trends to advise based on. But if I was advising someone one on one I would say to use every single thing you can to try to get a foot in the door and leverage the heck out of your background in any way you can.
My advice once you get that job is to go all in on being an engineer and not trying to further bank on your background to either get a leg up or just survive. You have to be a really good standalone engineer first and after you got the senior level you can start specializing and applying your unique experience to impacting the company and developing your area of expertise.