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Professional Story

My entire life I've always identified as an athlete. Specifically a ski racer. Ski racing is a sport where you have to push yourself mentally and physically to succeed at the highest level. My background is skiing has helped at Turing where you are constantly uncomfortable and push through the mental and physical barriers to succeed in this very demanding environment. I would consider push past my pain threshold to be a great strength of mine. Another skill in skiing that translates to Turing is being self motivated. When it was skiing it was getting up before the sun, and training in excess of 800 hours a year. That being said you to have to be extremely dedicated and motivated to succeed at Turing. Whether it be staying very late on the weekdays of coming in on the weekends to make sure that what needs to get done gets done. One challenge that I've encountered at Turing is that I've always identified as an athelete in my life. I've never identified as an academic type. I think that applying the skills from ski racing and applying them at Turing has made it easier. I made the switch to a career in software development becasue I wanted to do something that what I made would help people. I've always like to build things with my hands and been the creative type through drawing and photography. I took some online courses in programming and sopke to current Turing students and thought it would be something that I wanted to do. So far it been very challenging, but I would rather be challenged and learning new things. As opposed to being stuck in a rut in my old job in the same routine not being challenged or pushed. My background as a former athlete wouldn't allow for it. So I push on, and push myself