Taking Control of your Tech Career
summary
Career advice grounded in concrete moves: leaves tech for three years of retail to cure burnout, rebuilds that shop website and runs a smoking-cessation knitting program, endures three layoffs, then shifts roles from developer → business analyst → people manager → developer advocate. Moves countries mid‑pandemic to join AWS DevRel, runs 20+ Twitch sessions at an AWS Sydney summit for ~25,000 attendees, uses a daily notepad and a good stuff file and a contacts app (Context+) to track wins, and wins roles by pitching gaps and asking mentors for referrals.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:58Taking Control of your Tech Career
- 5:20Values
- 6:44Dealing with burnout
- 10:09Health Report Learn to knit and cast off smoking
- 10:58Moving into new areas
- 13:27Finding your voice
- 15:59Doing the things that scare you
- 19:08Mentoring
- 27:03Thinking big
- 30:56Networking
- 34:28Landing your dream job aws
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