🎓 What did you study, and what are you doing now?
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I’ve always found it interesting how different people’s careers can turn out compared to what they originally studied.
Especially in the startup and tech world, there are so many people building products in fields that have little to do with their formal education.
So I’m curious:
What did you study? And what are you doing now?
Did you end up working in the same field, or did your career take you somewhere completely different?
And if you changed direction, what made you do it?
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@adana I have done CCNA, MCS, Network administration. Spent years keeping other people's infrastructure running, then ended up building an AI writing platform from scratch about as far from "sysadmin" as you can get on paper, but the actual skill that transferred surprised me: the instinct to verify everything before trusting it, never assume a system works just because it looks like it's working.
Turns out that's just as useful for testing whether an AI tool's output is actually correct as it was for checking whether a server was actually healthy.
Didn't plan the jump, just kept building things on the side until one of them turned into the main thing.
RunEvr
@farrukh_ahmed8877 That’s a really interesting transition! I love how the skills from your previous field turned out to be so relevant in what you’re doing now. Sometimes the skills we build in one area become unexpectedly valuable in a completely different one. And it’s great that you kept building things on the side until one of them became your main thing!
@adana Appreciate that and I think it's more common than people expect. The "unexpected transfer" seems to happen most when the original skill was really a way of thinking, not a specific tool or stack. Verification instinct, pattern-matching, whatever it is that stuff doesn't care what industry you learned it in.
Good luck with RunEvr will keep an eye on how it develops.
RunEvr
@farrukh_ahmed8877 Oh, I really like your point of view about the way of thinking! I couldn’t have formulated it better myself.
I’ve always believed in having an inner stack of skills and ways of thinking that you carry with you, no matter what you’re doing. =)
@adana "Inner stack" just feels right more real than "transferable skills," which always sounded like corporate jargon to me. An inner stack suggests the stuff actually holding things up, not just bullet points on a page.
So I’m curious: a few months into RunEvr now, has that inner stack popped up somewhere you didn’t see coming? Not the obvious “oh, this skill applies here” moments, but times you surprised yourself by using some non-technical instinct to crack what seemed like a technical or product problem.