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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I come from a very very long line of men who are municipal employees (fireman, garbageman, janitor etc) and women who are either SAHM or secretaries. I was first gen college student, but really didn't know what I was doing and just got a bachelors in psychology because it was interesting...and $100k of debt to show for it. I graduated college in 2011.

From 2011-2018 I was a dog walker making $50k/yr. I decided to be the best dog walker I could by applying my psychology skills so I started tracking what motivated my customers - why were they choosing me as their walker, what made their lives easier, what was the sweet spot of my pricing? This made me an extra 20% that year.

So in 2019 I decided to open a dog walking agency with a friend and used my knowledge to staff dog walkers on jobs. We ran this until Jan 2023 when she stopped working to be a SAHM.

Jan 2023 a new dog walking app was becoming available so I messaged the CEO on LinkedIn about how much I know about the end user motivations, walkers experience, and business operators needs. I got hired for an entry level sales job. I recognized this as an opportunity to build a true career and I love learning so early on I basically just asked if I could help out in other areas or sit in on meetings- customer success, implementations, product meetings. Then after the meetings, I'd offer to be a sounding board and collaborator to whoever had action items to take away from that meeting. I've been happy working from home and making $85k.

Fast forward to yesterday. My supervisor just put a meeting on my calendar titled "check-in" and she let me know that there is a new role needing filled for Product Lead of the entire platform and the VP of Product had asked my boss if he can steal me to fill it. It was such a whirlwind convo and I'm still digesting, but they want me to jump in as early as next week and essentially they compiled a team of 3 developers, 2 QA testers, an implementation PM, and a support person and want me to lead the direction and launch of the next phase of the platform. Then I had a call at the end of the day with the VP and he said that all teams- product, dev, and support unanimously recommended me for the role. It pays $150k.

I feel like such an imposter- scared and unprepared and like good things don't just happen to me. And I've never seen anyone up close have a true career with growth and autonomy and idk wtf I'm doing. I'm a single mom of two daughters and really want to model better for them, but holy crap do I feel like a fraud.

*heading to the library to check out product related books*

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You are not a fraud. This is what they talk about when they talk about career mobility and bootstraps. This is your chance and your family's chance to change it up from how it was before. You have passion for the product and the service which is rare and personal motivation to learn and better yourself which is even rarer. [/quote]

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