Never to late to Change

My Friday Thought: Is it too late to change into a career in tech? Most definitely not!

I am here to provide proof that it isn’t and in fact can be a huge advantage for you. After over 10 years of policing working my way up to a training position for the police national training college I decided to give myself a new challenge and try the world of tech. I knew the kind of role I wanted to do, believed I could do well and made the leap. I took a small step first into government, I understood public sector well after all. Here I realised that I had a raft of skills, knowledge and experience I hadn’t considered transferable, but looking back they so clearly were. Who knew Crime Scenes and tech had so much in common!

More adventurous this time. After 2 years I had done three roles with agility as the key component and I decided I would push myself to the dark side of the private sector. I became a consultant whose role was more aligned to that of a Project Manager. This was my biggest fail, whilst I could do the role, and do it well, it bored me, and I realised I had made a huge mistake. Luckily another role came up and I moved to a private company who was trying to put agility at the heart of what it did.

Since then I have created international accredited training course in agility, DevOps and Product Ownership, spoken at tech events, had the hardest unpaid role (parenthood) and lead teams to awarding winning practices.

So, no matter what role you are currently in, tech or not, if you fancy a change you can most certainly do it. More importantly you will no doubt have transferable knowledge, experience and skills. These, most likely, will make you unique and will be a great advantage to you and whoever is lucky enough for you to move to. Want to take a leap, but still unsure – feel free to reach out and talk it over.