Five years ago, I was making under $60K, miserable in a blazer, and trying to figure out how to build a life that actually felt like mine.
Tech changed that for me. Now AI is changing what’s possible for all of us.
This next era is about more money, more freedom, more control, and learning how to use tech + AI to build new possibilities in real time.
Follow along if you’re ready to to use Tech + AI to build a life of more options✨
I’m spending my summer studying AI at Oxford, and here’s what applying actually taught me.
Most opportunities are more accessible than they look from the outside. I almost talked myself out of applying because I thought I had to be perfect first. I had a disappointing experience in 2020 that lead me to pull out of my study abroad plans
When I looked up the requirements, I realized I had built the whole thing up in my head. The harder part was never the application. It was getting past the idea that people like me don’t end up in spaces like this. You don’t need a perfect plan. You just need to start before you feel ready.
I’ll be documenting all of it this summer. What would you want to see?
→ Behind the scenes of the application process
→ Course breakdowns
→ Day-in-the-life content
→ What Oxford is actually like
→ AI concepts I’m learning in real time
I wasn’t ready when I started.
I didn’t have the credentials, the connections, or even the confidence in myself yet.
All I had was a decision and the courage to keep figuring things out one day at a time, even when nobody was watching.
There were so many moments I doubted myself. So many times I felt behind, unqualified, or out of place. But I kept going anyway.
And somehow, that one decision changed my entire life.
I hope I made her proud.
I hope she saw me trying, even on the days I felt like I was failing.
People who’ve never had to find a job in this economy, or even find a job at all, have no idea that simple applications just don’t work anymore.
Studies show that job seekers need to engage in full-on campaigns now. This means:
- applying to the job
- getting a referral
- finding the hiring manager
- creating a project relevant to the role to send to that hiring manager
- following up for weeks and months at a time
These are the things that I did to land roles, and oh my goodness, it was taxing.
If you’re looking for more guidance in this area, comment JOB and I’ll send you exactly what helped me (for free)
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Wanna play with the app I just built? Comment Make for the link along with the prompt I used to get started🤓
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One of my favorite quotes from Gossip Girl is “If it ain’t broke, break it”. It perfectly applies here because it’s how I was able to learn to code and onboard onto technical teams so quickly.
I’m faced with this huge code base my first day there and expected to learn my way around at a decent speed. What allowed me to learn was by literally breaking the code and learning how to fix it.
“What happens if I remove this line of code?”��Seeing what part of the platform broke after those actions helped me quickly understand the point of the section I was looking at, the point of the file, and allowed me to better know my way around.
Apply this to anything
🍳cooking (how do I make this sweeter without adding sugar)
💪🏾 health+fitness (how do I feel more energized without drinking coffee)
💸finance (how do I make my first $100 in the stock market)?
Find a problem and aim to fix it.
