🎉 Follow-up to yesterday's post on tattoos in the workplace! 🎉
Let me take you back to 2014. I was 24 and working as an administrative assistant in the grounds department at the University of Arizona. After a year or two as a temp, I was thrilled to be hired permanently, earning around $30k/year. At that time, I thought this was the peak of my career. Feeling invincible, I decided to get my knuckles tattooed with "PLUR LIFE." For those who don't know, PLUR stands for Peace, Love, Unity, Respect—a mantra I try to live by daily.
Within a week of getting my tattoos, I was laid off. Suddenly, I was unemployed and struggling to find another office job that would accept me with my new tattoos. After a few tough months, I landed a temp job at an MSP. I had no idea what an MSP was and barely knew anything about the industry. My task was simple: data entry of sales leads into TigerPaw (anyone remember using that??).
To my surprise, the company liked me enough to hire me full-time as a help desk assistant. I answered phones, triaged and routed tickets, and learned on the fly about servers and firewalls. From that humble beginning, I grew into various roles at the MSP, managing backend operations and eventually moving to another MSP for more growth opportunities.
One of the projects I am most proud of was migrating from TigerPaw to ConnectWise. I loved being part of that project and optimizing our processes. After six years in the MSP world, I took a leap and became a ConnectWise consultant, eventually venturing out on my own.
My 24-year-old self would have never imagined owning my own business. Those tattoos, which I once thought were a career setback, led me to where I am today. They brought me to the right place at the right time in my life. I have "no ragrets"!
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