Those that know my personal story know that I have a varied background when it comes to work history from a hardcore sales, and customer service background to an administrative, and training background. Up until I started my transition I was the primary day to day administrator of an auto dealer association.
Now it was a hybrid position where I worked on selling vehicles, marketing as well as taking care of dealers and ensuring that their needs were taken care of. Kind of a cool something different every day of the week kind of job, 6 days a week. I loved a lot of aspects of it, and worked with and for some amazing people. People who I still have a HUGE amount of respect for.
In 2018 I was handed a website to start working to bring to a modern, and viable place. In reality, it was not a logical endeavor to try and fix the issues as the people that built the site had done so in the late 90s early 2000s. The database was a nightmare to sift through (legit took a couple of weeks to fully understand what was going on). There were next to no plugins set up and had a ton of custom code that a) couldn't be replicated, and b) and more importantly provided a hardcore security risk and could not be updated with some hardcore work.
Let me note that at this point I had done a stint doing some graphic design tasks for a printing company, and had worked on…
