I think there is a natural high level of excitement when starting a new job. I mean who isn’t stoked (and nervous) for their first day? You spend the night before waking up every hour in fear of being late or missing your alarm, then proceed to try on seventeen combinations of mediocre outfits. You try to nail thirty first impressions with a whole team of new colleagues, making nervous lunchtime conversations, all while trying to impress the heck out of your new boss. So fun!

That being said, before starting at Dynamo, changing careers was not really on my…