-: What I love about my job
is I can experiment with a bunch of different technologies,
and that's actually encouraged.
I can learn a lot, and that's encouraged.
And even if I fail a lot,
it's encouraged to find the learnings within the failures,
and then publish them out
so everyone can learn about your failures (laughs).
And I wouldn't even necessarily call them failures,
it's learning, and that's the most fun part
about my job is it's just
continuous learning no matter what,
so I love that about my job.
And if I find that I don't necessarily like
the position I'm in, or I wanna grow,
I have the flexibility to go explore other positions
in the company, or even in that sector
and kind of move accordingly.
One of that hardest things I've had to learn
is that I am just as much a part of the team
as someone who is at a higher level.
And through my life I've learned, you know,
you need to respect your elders,
you need to respect the people who are the decision makers.
What I've learned in this role
is I play just as crucial a role
as some of those other people.
I get to make decisions too,
or at least bring the research to the table
that's gonna help make the decision.
So one of the things that I've had to learn
is not keep things to myself,
and I've had to, you know, say to myself this is important,
we need to bring this forward,
instead of, oh, they're not gonna listen to this.
I've never been really a timid person,
but I've always been careful where I've stepped,
but in this role, I'm very much encouraged to speak up,
and you know, say my findings.
And even if they say, oh, that's not quite correct Katie,
I'm still, I wouldn't say rewarded,
but encouraged to keep going instead of just,
oh hush, why are you speaking?
So one of the hardest things is,
I guess, learning to speak up (laughs).