My life changing experience with Galaxy
I Suhasini, I'm an aspiring techie. I come from an Operations and finance field. One day I came across an internship article called as Outreachy who accept participants from all stratas of society and every class, holding no bar to people of different culture, race, gender, class, etc. I never knew such opportunities existed. I was excited but at the same time nervous coz thinking whether I would be accepted, whether I would be judged for not being very fluent with all kinds of tech terminologies. The day when I got approved I was over the moon coz I want this so much. I checked out all projects and came across Galaxy. I just knew that this was my calling. I joined the Gitter group and felt very welcome. This is the first time I came across people of varied nationalities and every moment that I have been part of this group and project has been life altering. Honestly, I was supposed to start a new job for a bank but I left that opportunity as I wanted to be a part of ...