I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I want honest answers, not the polished LinkedIn version.

Why did you really get into tech? Not the safe answer. Not “I love problem solving” or “tech is the future.” I mean the real reason. Was it curiosity? Freedom? Money? The idea of building something that actually matters? Escaping something? Proving something? Because if we’re being real… a lot of us didn’t start this journey dreaming about standups, Jira tickets, or optimizing someone else’s product roadmap. I’m here looking at my own career, and don’t worry, it’s not your usual cliché “escape the matrix” conversation. It’s more of me trying to understand where exactly I am headed and where I intend to head, if that makes any sense… I hope it does. But what I mean is how we don’t lose sight of that creative side and the fun part of it all, because I noticed that somewhere along the line, something shifts. You start off wanting to build. To explore. To create weird, ambitious, maybe even unrealistic things. Like I, for instance—I wanted to make games. Kenzie from Game Shakers lowkey ins