Ep. 119: Repost: Making your own luck: growing up in Myanmar, getting a full scholarship to MIT, and co-founding the most popular service for gmail with Aye Moah (Co-founder and CEO of Boomerang).

Do you want to make a big career change?  But you haven’t taken action because you’re afraid of failing?  

In this episode, we discuss: - How to make a big career change going from dropping out of college and driving Lyft to becoming a software engineer at a Fortune 50 company. - How growing up as a Black man in a single parent household impacted his life and career decisions, and made him have the grit to keep going forward to achieve his dreams.  - What you learn from living paycheck to paycheck, and the mindset shifts you need to make to get out of the hustle mentality.  - Why it’s important to know that you are also interviewing the company, and how to build confidence in yourself.  - How working with a career coach helped him make his story shine through, and helped him land his first offer.  - What you can do to turn what you think is your weakness into your X factor, and make employers want to hire you and mentor you.  Learn more about Aye on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/ayemoah, Twitter @ayemoah, and https://www.boomeranggmail.com/.  Connect with Samorn at www.linkedin.com/in/samornselim. Get a copy of Samorn’s book, “Belonging: Self Love Lessons From A Workaholic Depressed Insomniac Lawyer” at https://tinyurl.com/swpc578c. Get weekly career tips by signing up for our newsletter at www.careerunicorns.com. Want to work with Samorn?  Send a message at www.careerunicorns.com for a free consultation.