Jaime was in her forties before finding her way into software development, a career that challenged her more than her work as pharmaceutical sales representative.
In order to reskill, Jaime undertook a 12-week bootcamp with General Assembly and then undertook a developer apprenticeship with Envato, the company behind a world-leading online community for creative assets, tools and talent.
Now a fully-fledged developer at Envato, Jaime loves problem solving, the variety of projects that she gets to work on and the opportunities for career growth in tech.
In Jaime’s own words:
“I was just looking for something to challenge me. I speak a couple of languages and I thought that software development and engineering is another type of language. And yeah, I thought, why not try that?
“I have two kids, two young boys, and I just thought it’d make me a cool mum.
“Having kids can also be a bit of a drawback because you want security, and you want certainty. But if you can look at it from another perspective of being inspired and wanting to be a role model for your kids, then you know, as ambitious and as lovely as that sounds, it really was.
“What I like about being an engineer is that the problems never get stale-they’re always changing and they’re always different.”
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