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How did you find your way into tech?<\/h3>\nMy post-school career started in a contact centre, from where I moved to a marketing role and was lucky enough to complete a professional certificate in management which helped me fall back in love with study.<\/p>\n
My course tutor suggested I look into a 6Sigma qualification and that is where my love of data began.\u00a0 I have always been interested in \u2018why\u2019 things happen and understanding that data was a great way to get to the root cause made me want to learn to pull my own data, I learned to code and from there my interest in coding, data warehousing, and databases was born.<\/p>\n
Building a strong data culture is a gateway to making meaningful change to help improve any organisation and it starts with a tiny piece of code.<\/p>\n
I guess you could call me an unlikely analyst.\u00a0 I always thought my career would be focused on languages and books; when I was little I wanted to be a librarian and have always been happiest when surrounded by books.<\/p>\n
In high school my grades weren\u2019t high enough to allow me to sit Higher Maths \u2013 which I now find funny because it\u2019s something that forms a key part of my role every day.<\/p>\n
I studied English at university and my careers officer at school had pointed me towards nursing and teaching as potential professions, which maybe says more about the bias or opinions back then than it does about me.<\/p>\n
My advice for anyone who isn\u2019t sure if a STEM career is for them, or if they can do it, is to give it a try.\u00a0 Accept any help and learn from experts around you.<\/p>\n
Never let anyone tell you can\u2019t do it, with enough effort and hard work, you can do anything.<\/p>\n
I suffer frequently from imposter syndrome, but then I remember they (teachers) told me I wasn\u2019t smart enough to do maths, and I proved them wrong.\u00a0 So can you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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