u/nicolascoding

A college path won’t get you there directly, or if it does, it’s not the same as having some hands on experience.

Now directly contradicting what I wrote above 🤣, I went to school to be a software engineering and studied computer science through the college of engineering.

I had a few software engineering jobs and then quickly realized I wanted to be customer facing.

I started at a company called Citrix. At the time, they had a program where they recruited people out of university to train them to either be solutions architects or sales engineers.

It was a cool program because they would staff you on projects with senior resources so you had a nice support system.

The tech side was super easy for me but seeing how things worked in a real corporate environment, how decisions are made in a boardroom, how a CIO makes decisions, was probably some of the best experience in my career.

From there, I made the transition over to Software sales as a sales engineer, and it brought deep credibility. I got to still use my tech muscles when I would architect a Customer deployment in a pre-sales capacity. This instilled courage for them to buy and usually a POC was the small scale of prod.

It was basically just doing my old job but with a nice commission attached to it.

My background was always software engineering and infrastructure so when I went from Citrix -> Auth0, I went from cloud/datacenter infrastructure back to developer solutions. When we got acquired by Okta, it was a hybrid of both.

If I had to look forward with the way the world works now, I still think the technical skills are very important depending on what type of products you want to get into.

I think AI lowered the barrier to entry significantly and I think it’s much easier to acquire a technical skills. I think the soft skills are more important now.

Also- don’t let that discourage you from going deeper into the tech.. I think people will get lazy and just rely on the AI too much without actually understanding the underlying technical implementation.

Now I run my own Company TurboDocx from the lessons learned in my time in pre/post sales. I can generate SOWs pointing to my salesforce and call recordings, generate architecture from prior deployments pointing to those docs, etc.

There’s probably programs that hire out of college still, but it’s harder to justify a college hire in this environment when there’s a pool of pure-tech talent being displaced from layoffs that need to be trained on the soft skills/how companies buy.

That’s why you automate it 😉 and why I left being an SE to start my company that does exactly this

Someone sent me your post, and I get the concern. We actually built a free tool that helps check cases in Word Documents/PDFs and links to sources like Casetext and Justia—no AI, just simple pattern matching and searches.

AI written or not, it might be useful for double-checking junior associates' work. Feel free to try it out: https://labs.turbodocx.com/legal-case-identifier

I’ve paid for my roofs several times over. I’ve been self repairing everything and only keep it for catastrophic loss. Even then, it’s wild that with the highest deductibles it’s still 6k+ a year

Not sure I understand what you’re asking for as Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides has always done the presenting part well for us.

In terms of assembling the components and content into new documents and slide decks, we’ve built https://TurboDocx.com for this

Yes. Focus on cashflow from your saving over cash and buy your time back.

I read this clickbait title.

This is copy pasted from the bill. It appears to be a friendly alternative for those that don’t have the upfront cash to move in. EG first, last, and security.

Fees in Lieu of Security Deposits: Authorizes landlord to offer tenant option to pay fee in lieu of security deposit; provides requirements relating to certain notices, filing of insurance claims, options for paying fee, & written agreements between landlord & tenant to pay fee in lieu of security deposit; prohibits landlord from accepting certain payments; specifies landlords have exclusive discretion whether to offer tenants such option; prohibits landlord from approving or denying application for occupancy based on prospective tenant's choice to pay fee in lieu of security deposit.