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Alex didn’t start in tech. Five years ago, Alex was a librarian, a curator of physical data. The transition had been a "job musical chairs", moving from managing stacks of books to managing clusters of servers. The skills were surprisingly similar: organization, logic, and a deep-seated need to find the right answer.

The green lines on the monitor began to stabilize. The error rate dropped from 40% to 2%... then zero. The Slack channel erupted in celebratory emojis—mostly dancing parrots and "GG" (good game) messages. technology job

Even the most technical roles require heavy communication via tools like Slack and Jira. Alex didn’t start in tech

The core of any tech job—whether it's AI Engineering or UX Research—is solving complex real-world problems. Alex was a librarian