u/michaelnovati replied ·
Congrats! +1 to leveraging your past career for finding a new job.
I've talked to a number of people lately and recommended this approach and it's really resonated.
Engineers solve problems at the end of the day.
Software engineers use code to solve problems.
But if you have another job, like being an Uber driver, or marketing person, think about the problems you have on the job, and how you solve them. If you can't think of any: start looking for problems, fixing them, and noting down the impact it had.
Why? That's what engineers do. If you are finding and fixing problems in your old job - even if they aren't technical problems, then you are thinking like an engineer, and that will carry forward to your new job too and show people why you are meant to be an engineer.