The pandemic gave her the motivation she needed to get serious about her career. Greenbush was working as a barista at a downtown Seattle Starbucks when she was furloughed. Kimberley Greenbush was among the victims. At one point, the state had lost more than 100,000 food and beverage service jobs. The top five employers of boot camp graduates all have significant operations in Seattle, including Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft.Īt its peak last year, Washington states unemployment rate reached 16.3%. Seattle had a 27% increase in students and also ranked among the top five cities where students lived, along with New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., according to a report by software company Career Karma Inc. Tech boot camps exploded in popularity last year as the pandemic cost millions of jobs. Its weird because 2020 was such a bad year, but I think it was probably one of the best years of my life. I saw ads for it all the time, and I was thinking to myself, I have all this free time and in 14 weeks, its a done deal, says Fouroohi, who is now a software engineer at Pathloom, a company that offers an outdoor trip planning app. She spoke with a couple of friends who had completed the program and plunged right in. Dojos 14-week course teaches full-stack coding, data science and other emerging technologies. That reflection led her to Bellevue-based Coding Dojo, one of many organizations that offers an immersive technology boot camp. I tried just to take it day to day, and during my staycation, I did a lot of thinking. The schools to which she was applying to finish her bachelors degree abruptly put everything on hold during the early, uncertain stages of the pandemic.Īnd thats when the panic started, she recalls. She also lost a clear vision for her future. Fouroohi was furloughed and called back, but eventually lost a job that she loved. Jay Inslee ordered all restaurants to shut. Then the pandemic hit, business plummeted and Gov. Thats exactly what she did at Din Tai Fung Restaurant Group for almost four years. With her playful nature and gregarious personality, its not hard to picture Tia Fouroohi slinging drinks and chatting up customers behind a bar. Subscribe here to access the print edition. This story is featured in the July issue of Seattle Business magazine.
0 kommentar(er)
