A technical career track was never my intention out of college. I graduated from James Madison University with a BA in Political Science. I spent most of my university years going to punk shows in basements, making paintings on cardboard because I couldn’t afford real canvas, and occasionally writing papers about topics like Jewish Pogroms in Poland or the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr. Today I’m 3 years into my position as a Data Scientist at Amazon writing Python code to build Machine Learning algorithms. I never went to a code bootcamp and I never went to grad school.
Great write-up!