From 0 to Clojure, Career Change
Toni Väisänen
Cat Rivers shares her journey from tattooing to software development and back, discussing burnout, coding experiences, and the challenges of career changes. Highlights
🎨 Cat Rivers is a tattoo artist and psychologist who briefly ventured into coding.
💻 She experienced burnout while juggling entrepreneurship and sought stability in tech.
🔄 Coding was seen as a potential career change but led to emotional challenges.
📚 She learned JavaScript, TypeScript, and Clojure, noting their complexities.
🤝 Networking helped her land an internship and eventually a job in software development.
🧠 Imposter syndrome and communication barriers are common in tech environments.
🦆 Cat returned to tattooing, emphasizing the need for creative fulfillment.
Spotify version will be published on the 22. of August.
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Toni Väisänen
Toni Väisänen
Software engineer @ Metosin Ltd Need help with a project, contact: first.last@metosin.com As a 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭, I help clients find technical solutions to their business problems and facilitate communication between the stakeholders and the technical team. As a 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫, I build technical solutions for client's problems from user interfaces, and backend services to infrastructure-as-code solutions. As a 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫, I create, validate and deploy predictive models.