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by kamphey 45 days ago
I'm 42. Nearly every 5 years for the past 20 years I've had a career change. From working in Theatre to TV/Film, to Startup, to Google Sheets wizard.

Each progress hasn't been a full on "career change" but rather, a sort of side project I was interested in took over my entire world.

Doing theatre, I'd work with video guys. While in Video department, I did graphics to turn to Digital Content. While doing digital content, I automated a lot. learned to code Excel VBA, while trying to survive in a PA job, I automated Google Sheets While doing google sheets in a company, I side gigged doing online growth. While doing online growth, I learned to code. I coded my own site, I did more and more google sheets and created Better Sheets 5 years ago.

Now I play board games because I want to get off screen with friends/family. I am considering creating a physical gaming center/board game cafe. which might be a new career that I didn't go to school for and didn't have to even think about transitioning. If some side project becomes a full time work... great!