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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, I was like you until I met the right mentor—in my late thirties. At 41, I jumped to a leadership role in a growing tech company. It can happen, op, if you find the right mentor and keep working hard. [/quote]

That’s amazing. I’ve been trying to transition into Big Tech, but only offers I’ve had are at startups for LESS pay.

How did you find the mentor, what made them decide to invest in you even as you worked for different organizations?[/quote]

Sorry, didn't see this earlier. I'm the poster who made that jump.

Like many of you, when I went to my HYP school out of a massive public mediocre high school... I didn't go to office hours and I was terrified of speaking up in my small classes/seminars. 
 
Fast forward many years and my employer offered to pay for me to take a course as part of my continuing training and the instructor became my mentor, he was teaching the class as a side thing because he loved teaching. He got me to (finally) really participate in a small class and I ended up taking other courses through the same university. He had a really, really similar background and story to mine and someone helped him make the jump years and years ago.[/quote]

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