From Accountant to Automation Developer

Someone said, I think you should do it. It was basically like, hey, pick up an automation tool and build something. I did something with UiPath. It was the first place for UiPath. And I was like, okay, I have something here. Like, this is more fun to me. And I had always liked coding stuff. Were you on MySpace back in the day? Yeah, back then, definitely. So like when you used to, like, you used to be able to do custom layouts and like that was all HTML. And that's how I was probably in 7th grade learning HTML just so I could have a cool MySpace layout so I could autoplay a song from YouTube because the song wasn't available. Like all of those things, that was what got me into coding. And I was like, it's not this big foreign scary monster, something that's very tangible. You can do it, you can iterate, iterate, iterate, get your result, and it's so rewarding when you make a computer look and do what you want it to. So I always had that in the back of my mind. But yeah, I was really, really, um, interested in automation and analytics, just working smarter, right? I, like I said, I, I didn't— Definitely. Never loved accounting. So I was like, hey, at least I can do something cool with accounting, which is automating it, automating the parts of it that are not as fun so that you can do stuff that's impactful to really like review the financials and say, oh, this is the reason this is happening is X, Y, and Z, or we should make this business decision because of X, Y, and Z. And if you're doing data entry all the time, you lose the forest from the trees, right? You lose sight of that's what we're really here to do.