I earned a degree in journalism and am switching careers at 34 to web development after 20 years in sales/customer service. This has been extremely helpful, as journalism taught me how to ask the right questions and sales has taught me to be empathetic towards the customer/end-users needs. They both taught me how to communicate with people on many levels, as well as in technical and non-technical capacities. Also, I adapted to Google and dbs like Lexus-Nexus early on, so finding information on-line has long been second nature to me.
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I earned a degree in journalism and am switching careers at 34 to web development after 20 years in sales/customer service. This has been extremely helpful, as journalism taught me how to ask the right questions and sales has taught me to be empathetic towards the customer/end-users needs. They both taught me how to communicate with people on many levels, as well as in technical and non-technical capacities. Also, I adapted to Google and dbs like Lexus-Nexus early on, so finding information on-line has long been second nature to me.