My first trip to the office!!! · Women in Tech Power Network

My first trip to the office!!!

London update because I feel like I’ve barely stopped moving since I got here 😂🥵…. Firstly HOW are you all coping in this heat because I feel like I’m fighting for survival 😭 I thought Liverpool was bad but London heat is something else entirely…… add in the fact my stomach is still being an absolute menace and I’ve basically spent 2 days feeling sick, overheating and surviving off sparkling water 🤮…… I feel like I’ve loads about 2 stone in pure sweat 😩🤮🥵

But aside from melting…… It’s been SUCH a good couple of days.….. Yesterday I got took out for lunch, spent a few hours in the office, then back out again in the evening for more social stuff so it’s been full on from the second I arrived.

The biggest news though…… They’ve asked me to start doing more work with the AI team AND offered me a big pay increase to take the lead on automating a lot of the really time consuming tasks across the company rather than just the community posts I mentioned on the catch up 👀✨💃🏼❤️ Safe to say I’m VERY excited….. it still feels a bit surreal because not that long ago I was sat wondering if I’d ever break into this industry after rejection after rejection…… now I’m a month (1 month today!!!) into a role and they’re already seeing more potential in me than I even expected myself ✨❤️🙏

Today has been workshop day and at one point the CEO completely put me on the spot and asked…. “you’ve been here a month now, what do you think we could improve on?”

My answer was immediate…… bringing more women in.……. Because it’s still SUCH a male dominated space…. Both workshops I’ve done I have been the only female in the room(there are other women in the company but not in tech roles) & although I’m more than capable of holding my own in a room full of men……. I would love not to be the only woman, and being part of this network has shown me just how many ridiculously talented women are out there doing incredible things in tech every single day.…. The talent is there…..The skills are there…… The experience is there…. We just need more opportunities, visibility and pathways into these space, so my attention will now be focused on attracting women & automating the bits that everyone hates doing…. Not quite the job I applied for but that’s a good thing, I was getting bored by midday every day so this should keep me occupied for a while!!!!!

So yep…… watch this space because I’m more than willing to put the work in with some of their other teams and help push that change where I can…. They have also offered to sponsor (pay for) an event for this network, because I never shut up about how incredible you all our & our gorgeous

@Sian Kelly Guy

saved them a fortune getting us guest list tickets for RAISE, she even gave time to jump on a call with us yesterday & they were soooooo impressed!!! ….. they told me this about 30 mins ago so I still need to run it all by

@Sue Black

and figure out what it could look like but I’m grateful that they want to give back to our network after what our lovely Sian has given them ✨❤️🙏💃🏼……

That’s enough about me now, how are you? What have you all been up to this week? I hope all our GCSE mums are enjoying the half term, sending bundles of love to everyone ✨❤️ xxxx

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My first trip to the office!!!