My background is instructional design, advising and consulting, customer service, and medical education. I spent over 15 years having worked in both private and public, for-profit, and non-profit institutions. I am pivoting to tech. How do I show my value for me to be able to help a person(s) scale their business and be part of a team, given my limited experience in tech?
Now that I am here in California, especially being in the Bay Area, I am noticing that I have some major self-doubt. I see that I am comparing myself to fellow instructional designers.
This looks like fear.
I am ready to give. I want to challenge myself and continuously be in a place to grow. I am driven within, and I want to find that group of dreamers and individuals that want to help people have better lives. It makes me happy to create and design experiences. It lights me up to explore the needs, gaps, and frustrations of people and collaborate to find something. Together, we can come up with solutions to make people's lives better. I realize I don't have all the hard skills that the companies I have been watching want. But I have a dream that every single rejection leads to the company that wants a person like me.
Do we find yourself doubting your experience, or have trouble listing your accomplishments? Explore these thoughts and address them head on. When we are in our comfort zones, it is easy. But when we put ourselves in discomfort of manifesting our dreams; writing our wishes, fear creeps in to keep things in status quo creating excuses of why we can’t do it. See it. Observe it. Release it. Pivot to work towards making your dreams a reality. All power to you. All power to us. For all you crazy romantic cats out there. You got this. It’s an opportunity.