I have had a fair amount of very different jobs so far in my life. I have been a Chef, a Sonar Technician in the US Navy, a Medic in the US Army Reserves, an Accounts Payable and Purchasing clerk, and a Financial Systems Analyst. They all made sense at the time, and have all been fulfilling in their own way, but in every case I knew shortly after starting that these were not jobs that I would be happy doing for the rest of my career. Once mastered they would become repetitive and ultimately boring. I was extremely happy when I started down my most recent career path, I had finally found something that I could see myself doing forever, something that would never get boring; Programming.
Something that I find interesting is that in each change I was able to leverage skills learned in the previous jobs, even when completely un-related. I often tend to think “outside the box” and challenge notions that are commonly accepted as fact. Looking at a problem from multiple points of view has given me the ability to find creative solutions that someone with different experiences may not think of.
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