None of my immediate family members has university studies. They never forced me to follow a particular career path and I always felt free to explore what would work best for me. I chose to study electronics and telecommunication at the Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages at the University Politehnica of Bucharest because I loved foreign languages and I though a diploma in this field will be lucrative in the future.
I initially started as an IoT ( internet of Things) Application developer. In this role I was using an already existing platform to create software in a way that didn't involved too much programming, i.e. I was able to create websites using drag and drop on a canvas. I soon realised the limitations of such a non-code approach and how much more power true Software Development gives you to build and create. That's how I started pursuing it as a full time career. It helped to have been exposed to software development during college. Also the Freecodecamp community for fullstack development using javascript has been of tremendous help to help me find and land my initial job as a frontend developer.