Turning Setbacks Into Opportunities 💡

I was laid off from my previous job. We had gone through a merger. I originally been like employee number 10. I was with that company as a startup company in the energy storage space. I was with them for almost 5 years, 250 people. We merged with Siemens. Obviously with stuff like that, some people get laid off. So I was one of those people, unfortunately. But it gave me an opportunity to spend some months sort of thinking about what I wanted to do next. And so I refocused my attention on building out an IT consulting firm. Obviously it started with just myself and I had a contract for about 9 months. And at the end of the 9 months I was like, well, this is coming to an end. They let me know they weren't going to be renewing it. They didn't need to. Everything was built and I was just out there hunting for more contracts. And just so happened I got 2 at the same time and there was something inside me. I was like, I could do 2. But there was also a piece of me was like, I probably need to go get some help at this point.