Putting Failure to Work
In August of 2017, I enrolled in Turing School.
In March of 2018, I accepted my first job as a Software Engineer.
January 7, 2019, I officially began work as a TA for Turing.
February 26, 2019, I led my first online session for the Mod 0 program at Turing.
I’m in a position to not only succeed personally, but advocate, innovate, and accelerate the success of others.
Failure, is the reason I achieved my goal of becoming a software engineer — the kind that gets paid to write code — and later my goal of working for the school that molded me. The school that gave me so much.
Grappling with failure, embracing failure, and now seeking out failure.
This approach has allowed me to grow into the person I imagined back in the summer of 2017. Truthfully, I had imagined it for a few years, but I had remained stagnant.
Remaining idle is the only failure I will ever regret.
I had no idea that failure would become the catalyst of my success. Failure in motion has propelled me to a place where I feel empowered. I feel able. I feel unstoppable.
I’ll explain how failure and I changed our relationship and became partners in growth.
