Technical skills gap, studying while working full-time, family commitments

Burned out from 80-hour weeks, wanted creative work with better work-life balance

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• Master's in Human-Computer Interaction
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Burned out from 80-hour weeks, wanted creative work with better work-life balance
• Learning to code at 35, imposter syndrome, financial sacrifice during transition
• Took evening classes while working, built portfolio projects, networked heavily in tech community
• Lead UX Designer at Microsoft, 40-hour work week, doubled vacation time
• Your 'old' skills transfer more than you think. My legal training made me excellent at user research.
• At 35, I thought it was too late. At 37, I wondered why I waited so long.