CTE Guest Speaker #1





     The first guest speaker of CS Week was someone who works for Wikipedia, Mr. Otto. Three questions I prepared for him were "What do you like about your job?", "Who helped you find it?", and "Do you fear AI will take your job?" Mr. Otto talked about his experience finding a job he liked. He did not study in the field of CS in college. Mr. Otto studied and worked an entirely different field but discovered the current field he was working wasn't very enjoyable to him. He found out what he really liked was in the field of CS and even though he didn't go to college for it he was still able to gain the skills in the job he desired and got his job at Wikipedia. He told us to explore our options early in life an network with people that could help us in the future. Based on his experience he told us it's okay to not know what you're passionate about and it takes experimenting to figure out what suits your taste. What you're studying may not be what you want to do in the future so you might consider experimenting with courses. The main take away I got from Mr. Otto was that life is unpredictable and what you think will happen, especially as a career path, may not happen in the end. You should broaden your scope of interest to see what you're truly passionate about.

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