1 Year After Quitting My Tech Job to Follow My Dreams

Everything is fine and dandy and okay.
More than okay. Truthfully, things are quite splendiferous.

I am the happiest I’ve ever been.
I have also felt the saddest I’ve ever felt. The most pain I’ve ever felt. The most healing I’ve ever tapped into.

Healer.
Writer.
Spiritual guide.
Health warrior.

I am Steph.

The Backstory

1 year ago, I worked in an office at a 9–5 job in tech.

I worked as a technical marketing manager at Intel, promoting and selling FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays, a compact reprogrammable little piece of hardware).

It was a really great experience.

I loved the company culture because it was a small startup within larger Intel. Formerly Altera, it was a company Intel acquired. They maintained their own separate campus and small company vibe, complete with the intimate office relationships and energy.

Prior to that, I worked as a software engineer at large, full-scale corporate Intel.