What Career Is Right For Me?

Lindsay Aichinger
2 min readDec 22, 2020
Intel Sign at Corporate Headquarters. Intel is a multinational corporation and inventor of the x86 microprocessor, the processors found in most personal computers. — Photo by wolterke

I have had two careers before my current one. My first career was a chemical engineer. I was working as a process engineer in manufacturing and felt like I was working in an assembly line. I was a piece of the puzzle but it got harder and harder to see the bigger picture of my efforts. I have had jobs with Intel, Medtronic, and DuPont. Working as a process engineer wasn’t as interesting anymore. I wanted a career where I could see a bigger impact.

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I wanted to change careers into a safer environment. I took a bootcamp web design coding program but made the mistake of not taking an internship where I was actively solving real world problems. I managed though to get a few contract gigs as a website designer! The problem though was that I still wanted to utilize my engineering background and analyze different experiments.

So what career is perfect for me?

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Lindsay Aichinger
Lindsay Aichinger

Written by Lindsay Aichinger

Chemical Engineer. Chemical Convert. Health Advocate. She has lived through enough to know chemicals are not good for human health.