Is It Too Late to Change My Career?

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There’s something that I genuinely love about myself, yet I forget about it all of the time. It’s something that only comes up every now and then, because let’s face it- I’m known to play it safe for the most part. If a saying was my mantra, it’d be “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. But when I do want to try something new and I care about it, I don’t quit and that’s what I love about myself. Sobriety was one of those things and it helps remind me of this characteristic. Now I’m at a moment in time where I want to change my life.

Five years ago, I was laid off from my previous job and I went into overdrive learning and trying to find a new job. Even though I had a severance from the last job, I knew that if I didn’t work my ass off, I wasn’t going to get a job, and I also didn’t want to end up back in customer service. Not that I have anything against customer service jobs, but where I live in Austin, Texas, those jobs don’t pay enough to pay the bills. So I studied and studied, learning as much Python programming as I could and applied for jobs that mentioned said programming language. It took a month but I did get a job and it was as an Automation Engineer. I was so relieved and grateful to be working at a place where I actually got to apply what I had been learning and also learn even more on the job. I felt the impostor syndrome but it was a positive feeling. I felt like I had…