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Having data fluency, code fluency, you are already a valuable asset in many horizontal moves in tech companies and large companies with unavoidable tech bureaucracy - move to a sales role and now you can actually answer tough technical questions during prospecting or qualification without having to harass an engineer. Move to a PM role and have a better understanding of the level of effort of a task. Move to an operations role at a dinosaur conglomerate and use your scripting and automation abilities to outperform your peers and reinvent how your team works.

Learn to describe your experience and goals as a story that makes sense and is compelling.

Most white collar work would benefit from experience in software or data, whereas lifting 2x4s into place may not.



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