Trailer for the Salesforce+ series "Trailblazer" featuring short testimonials from multiple speakers who describe their journeys into the tech industry. Speakers discuss challenges such as lack of guidance and underrepresentation (particularly of African Americans), motivations for changing careers, and perseverance.
I kept seeing all these stories about different people transitioning into tech and increasing their salaries, and I just didn't see a lot of stories that included African Americans.
I always knew I wanted to be in tech, but the biggest challenge for me was the way that I was being taught. I didn't have any guidance.
I had no idea how many opportunities existed within this. I just knew that I was looking for, I guess, a life raft, something where I could have a sense of fulfillment.
When you take a chance on yourself, there's always that possibility that you won't make it. I walked.
In, and.
Nobody in there looked like me. I thought, okay, have I made a mistake? Do I belong here?
There were a lot of things that had to happen to get me to be sitting in this very spot right now. I just kept going. I kept pushing forward, pushing towards what I wanted.
