How did I get here? I'm a techie but I didn't start that way.
Maybe I was destined to get here - math was my best and favorite subject. Forget the mushy literature, gimme a logical problem any time. In junior high, I remember making plans with my best friend, to open and run a hotel - and that was after I got my B.Comm.
Well, I didn't open that hotel, but I did get my Bachelor of Commerce (Business degree). I majored in International Business - talk about general! I wanted to do it all. Yeah, I had to take a computer class - and seriously, it was a joke. I remember the word processor project was to write a page with three different fonts. Maybe I was destined to be a techie, knowing that I'm probably on the original "hotmail" server - I got my first hotmail account almost 20 years ago. I wanted a university email address so badly, I had to walk across campus to a remote building, in the middle of winter to get one. By my last year, it was automatic that you got an email address...yes technology has come a long way and has been a great influence in my life.
As I entered the workforce, I guess I naturally fell into a techie role - I can balance business needs and translate them into tech specs. And conversely, I can talk tech and transform that into a non-tech conversation. I was not put into that tech role, but I became the voice of the accountants (I wasn't in the accounting area either, I had friends there) to the techs. I know its not the techs' fault for not understanding the accountants - they just don't speak the same language - hence I became the interpreter. Continually I fell into a role where I would be dealing with databases - creating a student registration system for my brother's work, writing reports with my new SQL database at work, pulling information for my workmate from Peoplesoft and putting into Excel and using macros to give a consistent report every time.
And now I end up here - working for a software company. Soaking up the knowledge like a sponge. Yes, I still like working with people, translating between tech and business needs. And I like working within codes of databases - its all logical, which is what I understand. I didn't mean for tech to be my career, but alas, here I am - the Accidental Tech Gal.
Maybe I was destined to get here - math was my best and favorite subject. Forget the mushy literature, gimme a logical problem any time. In junior high, I remember making plans with my best friend, to open and run a hotel - and that was after I got my B.Comm.
Well, I didn't open that hotel, but I did get my Bachelor of Commerce (Business degree). I majored in International Business - talk about general! I wanted to do it all. Yeah, I had to take a computer class - and seriously, it was a joke. I remember the word processor project was to write a page with three different fonts. Maybe I was destined to be a techie, knowing that I'm probably on the original "hotmail" server - I got my first hotmail account almost 20 years ago. I wanted a university email address so badly, I had to walk across campus to a remote building, in the middle of winter to get one. By my last year, it was automatic that you got an email address...yes technology has come a long way and has been a great influence in my life.
As I entered the workforce, I guess I naturally fell into a techie role - I can balance business needs and translate them into tech specs. And conversely, I can talk tech and transform that into a non-tech conversation. I was not put into that tech role, but I became the voice of the accountants (I wasn't in the accounting area either, I had friends there) to the techs. I know its not the techs' fault for not understanding the accountants - they just don't speak the same language - hence I became the interpreter. Continually I fell into a role where I would be dealing with databases - creating a student registration system for my brother's work, writing reports with my new SQL database at work, pulling information for my workmate from Peoplesoft and putting into Excel and using macros to give a consistent report every time.
And now I end up here - working for a software company. Soaking up the knowledge like a sponge. Yes, I still like working with people, translating between tech and business needs. And I like working within codes of databases - its all logical, which is what I understand. I didn't mean for tech to be my career, but alas, here I am - the Accidental Tech Gal.