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From YouTube: Career Development with Diana Stanley
Description
In this interview, Jacie Bandur on the Learning & Development Team interviews Diana Stanley, Senior Support Engineer to learn more about what their career development journey has looked like. To ask Diana any questions, check out the Async AMA issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/people-group/learning-development/programs/-/issues/15.
Check out the TED Talk Diana talked about on “multipotentialites”: https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_calling
A
Hi
I'm
jc
bander
on
the
learning
and
development
team.
I'm
joined
today
by
diana
stanley
senior
support
engineer
here
at
get
lab
and
today
we're
going
to
be
talking
about
diana's
career
development.
So
diana,
could
you
start
off
by
just
telling
us
a
little
bit
about
what
your
career
has
looked
like
to
date?.
B
I
got
my
degree
at
the
worst
possible
time.
There
were
no
petroleum
engineering
jobs
available,
so
I
went
to
work
for
a
copy
shop
for
three
years
typing
papers
and
making
copies
after
I
got
tired
of
that.
I
sent
my
resume
off
to
the
local
petroleum
engineering,
consulting
company,
which
had
a
lot
of
people
from
the
university,
and
I
was
gonna.
I
was
like
I'll,
I
can
type
and
they
hired
me
as
a
like.
A
researcher
engineer
turned
out.
They
had
their
own
software
that
they
built
and
sold
to
customers.
B
B
So
after
I
got
tired
of
the
petroleum
engineering
company,
I
ran
away
to
california
to
become
a
unix
system
administrator,
which
I
actually
found
this
job,
because
I
was
hanging
out
on
next
talk
like
chat
rooms
on
usenet
news
groups.
So
I
got
my
job
in
california.
I
came
here.
I
was
basically
running
away
from
windows
is
really
what
it
was
after
a
few
months.
The
company
that
brought
me
out
here
decided
they
were
gonna
switch
to
windows.
B
B
B
It
was
an
email
device,
mirror
point
if
anybody's
ever
heard
of
that-
and
I
I
was
at
mirror
point
for,
like
nine
years
of
which
probably
eight
years
of
it,
the
company
was
dying,
but
they
kept
showing
signs
of
life
and
it
was
really
good
people
I
enjoyed
so.
I
went
from.
I
started
there
in
support
engineer
and
I
moved
to
rebuild
and
release
and
then,
when
I
finally
got
sick
and
tired
of
it,
one
of
my
co-workers
said
well.
I
have
these
friends
who
have
a
company
that
just
got
bought
by
apple.
B
Maybe
you
should
talk
to
them
and
that's
how
I
ended
up
on
this.
The
siri
team
at
apple
before
the
siri
launch,
so
I
think
that
is
the
crowning
achievement
in
my
career.
It
was
super
fun.
We
were
like
the
secret
project,
so
even
though
it
was
a
huge
company,
we
were
like
small
small
company
in
the
big
company
super
fun,
but
then,
after
the
siri
team
started
to
grow,
I'm
like
I
need
something
different.
B
I
moved
to
a
different
team
in
apple
and
my
new
manager
said:
hey,
I'm
going
to
put
you
on
this
little
installation
of
get
lab
and
you're
going
to
run
it,
and
I
was
like
gitlab
I've
never
heard
of
gitlab.
What
in
the
heck
is
this,
but
pretty
soon
after
dealing
with
the
product
and
the
people,
I
was
like.
Oh
man,
I
really
love
git
lab
and
I
would
say,
after
about
a
year
of
get
lab
running
it
at
apple
I
was
I
was
like.
I
want
to
go
work
for
kit.
A
B
B
Actually
I
I
there
was,
there
was
a
ted
talk
that
changed
my
life.
There's
a
ted
talk
about
multi-potential
lights
and
I
was
like
oh
yeah,
that's
what
I
am
and
and
like
it
it's
not
it's
not
a
bad
thing
to
get
excited
about
something
and
really
dive
into
it
and
learn
a
lot
and
then
just
like
okay,
I'm
ready
for
something
new
now.
B
So
I
I
think
what
I
found
in
my
throughout
everything.
It's
been
sort
of
just
like
learning,
to
know
myself
and
understand
what's
going
on
in
my
head
and
how
I'm
feeling
about
what
I'm
working
on
and
even
if
I'm
like
you
know,
I'm
starting
to
feel
that
feeling
like.
I
need
something
new.
I
I
don't
know
what
that
something
new
is.
Until
I
see
it,
I've
had
a
lot
of
problems
working
with
recruiters
over
the
years
and
they're
like
well.
B
What
are
you
looking
for
and
I'm
like
I
don't
know
I'll
know
it
when
I
see
it
and
it's
very
frustrating
for
them,
I'm
sure,
and
so
it's
kind
of
it's
it's
kind
of
just
like
put
yourself
in
environments
where
you
see
a
lot
of
things,
and
I
mean
a
lot
of
it-
has
come
from
really
sort
of
my
social
network
as
well.
I
have
a
lot
of
friends
who
are
working
on
a
lot
of
very
interesting
things
and
I'll.
You
know
find
out
about
something
and
get
interested
in
that.
B
I
I
think
every
job
I
ever
had
came
from
networking
not
from
like
going
out
and
looking
for
a
job
so
yeah.
It's
know
yourself
and
don't
try
to
force
things
but
be
ready
to
you
know
if
you
see
something
grab
it
and
really
dive
into
it.
I
guess
that's
really
kind
of
been
my
and,
and
it's
there's
been
a
lot
of
second
guessing
and
not
really
understanding
it
just
it
it.
It
took
a
long
time
to
understand.
Okay.
This
is
this
is
my
process,
and
this
is
an
okay
process.
Yeah.
A
A
B
The
more
I
feel
like
imposter
syndrome,
like
oh,
my
gosh,
because
I
know
how
I
got
there
like
I,
I
didn't
know
anything
about
it
and
I
just
I
had
no
fear
and
I
just
jumped
in
and
started
doing
it
and
then
I
start
to
realize.
I
have
no
idea
what
I'm
actually
doing,
I'm
just
winging
it
all
the
time,
but
so
sometimes
I
sometimes
I
still
have
to
just
do
that.
Like
I
go
into,
I
go
into
something
I'll
get
a
customer
call
and
I'm
like.