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My Career Transition: From factory to IT
5+ years later — What I would and wouldn’t do
Almost 6 years later of my professional restart, decided to re-share a little so that people can reflect on my path to make better decisions on theirs.
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Yeah, time passes, and with it I like to always look a little back and review what happened, to have a reflection. And when I look at my professional past and compare it with my present, I would never imagine that I would be where I am, both professionally and geographically. Next April, I’m celebrating 6 years of this table-turning.
A lot of people who follow me know that I have no background in the IT area. I have completed a Technician Course in Mechanics (similar to an Ausbildung in Germany), a Bachelor’s in Product Design, and a Master’s in Materials Engineering. From 17 to 29 I worked in several areas of metallurgical industries: from aluminum casting assistant dropping melting aluminum in casting trays at around 700–900 degrees Celsius to CAD design, where I designed machines for the shoe industry.
For the time being, I had a nice experience, a cool salary for the average in Brazil, more than my Dad had ever made in his life (just for you to understand my standard at that time), but way below the IT professionals, which at that moment, was something out of my world.
For Portuguese Speakers, here is a link to two YouTube sites where I tell my story:
-> Live with Stack people
-> Live with mentor Joao Oliveira
Yes, I wanted to migrate to IT, but like many, lost and did not know where to start, studying random things on Udemy, with a queue of courses and none finished. Until a “sister” friend of mine, whom I will not mention (Evelise =D) was living in India, came to me with an invitation “There are vacancies for SQL developer here at TCS Kolkata, you need to know about Databases and speak English, it’s an internship by AIESEC”. Many doubts:
