Letter #3: How I Got to the Best Job Ever

Hey you!

I totally get that you’re wondering what I’m doing professionally and how I got here. You should probably sit down for this...

At age 24 you’re going to make your way into high tech in Austin Texas at the height of the tech boom and learn all about building software and the people who make it happen. HOWEVER. When you turn 28 you’re going to be called to the service of others in a big way. It presents itself as a feeling that you need to join the Episcopal clergy, but you’re actually going to go into the counseling program at the seminary instead. In a pretty cool turn of events you’re going to become a Licensed Professional Counselor and psychotherapist by the time you’re 34. Seriously. But it turned out to only be a stepping stone to a bigger career.

You’re going to specialize in complex grief and become a highly-skilled trauma specialist and do private practice for 12 years. Then you’re going to turn it all sideways when you become one of the very first people ever to run a trauma-informed management program in a corporation because you still love people who build software. I told you, you needed to sit down. Just know you’re going to go on a fantastic ride with fantastic people and you’re going to do SO MUCH GOOD for others. Take comfort in that. I do.

— Me