Tech Journey Blogs

The long version of a short bio line

The About page compresses the story into a couple of sentences: trained and qualified as a pharmacist first, an A-grade result and a real career, before a slow pull toward computers turned into a full change of direction. That's accurate, but it's also the two-line summary of something that actually took years and had real turns in it — false starts, the specific moment something clicked, the unglamorous stretch of reading documentation late and breaking things on a machine nobody else depended on. This category is where that story actually gets told, post by post, instead of staying compressed into one bio paragraph.

What actually shows up here

Not a single linear narrative posted once and left alone — a running series, added to whenever there's a real chapter worth writing, in roughly the order it happened rather than backfilled to look tidier than it was. Expect posts about the pharmacy years and why the pull toward computers started at all, the actual self-taught process (what got learned first, what took longest, what almost caused giving up), the transition into paid technical work, and the ongoing decisions since — why SEO and GTM work specifically, why a website development leg got added, why this blog exists in the first place rather than being just a portfolio page.

Why this is a real category, not just an About-page footnote

Most personal/professional "journey" content lives in one about-page paragraph and stays there forever, because writing the real version properly takes more than one sitting. Splitting it into a real category solves that: each post can go deep on one actual turning point instead of cramming eighteen years into six sentences, and the story keeps growing as more of it becomes worth writing down — including the parts that are still unfolding, not just the tidy already-resolved chapters.

How this connects to the paid work

The throughline from pharmacist to Remote SEO Consultant & Remote GTM Manager work isn't a coincidence worth glossing over — it's actually the most interesting part of the story to a lot of readers, and it's covered honestly here: what a pharmacy background does and doesn't transfer to technical work, where the self-taught path had real gaps that had to get filled the hard way, and why "self-taught" doesn't mean "unstructured" once you're eighteen years into practicing.

A different kind of category

Every other category on this site is organized around a subject — AI, Workflow, Windows, Linux. This one's organized around a person's actual path instead, which makes it read less like a reference archive and more like a story you can follow start to wherever it currently is. That's deliberate. If AI/Workflow/Windows/Linux answer "what did you figure out," this category answers "how did you end up being the kind of person who figures these things out at all."