career
What the working years taught that no course did — clients, consulting, product, and where quality does and does not come from.
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Same word, two different jobs: sysadmin before and after AWS
I was a systems administrator twice, a decade apart — and the second time, on AWS, almost nothing from the first job carried over.
Quality was nobody's job, and then it was mine
Eight years at a software house, half in consulting and half building the company's own product. What decided which years I thrived in wasn't the contract label — it was that I've never been someone who sits still.
The freelance years: real clients, and a lesson school never taught me
Freelancing was the first time nobody vouched for the work but me — and the first time I learned that technical skill alone isn't enough.
My space, my challenges, my memories
I build, I experiment, I learn — and from here on I'm writing it down, instead of leaving it in my head or in a conversation I had once.
