How a former Avast HR associate returned one year later as a junior software engineer.
When I was 13 years old, I was shouted at by my school teacher for not having a computer at home. My family couldn’t afford one at the time, and it was only through a generous donation by a headteacher from a different school who caught wind of this unpleasant experience that we managed to acquire one. Little did I know that this event would end up influencing my professional future and career in technology.
Like most kids, my first experience with a computer was an unstructured one. A click here, a click there. I became scarily proficient at the pre-installed game of mini golf, and even adjusted a file that I ended up corrupting. I was hooked, and my interest in the IT Communications course I was taking at school skyrocketed.
At the age of 16, I finished secondary school and made a conscious choice to become an office administrator so I could work on a computer full-time and experience business life. However, I quickly lost interest. Personal computing was a far cry from professional computing, or so it seemed, and there were only so many documents I could scan and letters I could write before I felt unchallenged. So, after spending some time re-evaluating my options, I left the role and went to study social sciences as an undergraduate at university.
The four years that followed were busy. I moved from my home country Germany to the UK to study Human Resources at Edinburgh University which I would later practice in the industry with various employers in London. This was ..
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