I came to UX from a pretty different place — and I think it shows in how I work.
I spent several years as a veterinary nurse before making the move into design. The skills that transferred weren't the obvious ones. It was learning to read a situation quickly, communicate clearly with people under stress, and understand that the gap between what someone says they need and what they actually need is almost always where the real problem lives.
I've since worked across enterprise analytics platforms and two-sided marketplaces — most recently as an Associate UX Designer at Quantium, where I led end-to-end design across concurrent workstreams on Q.Checkout. I'm most drawn to complex, data-heavy interfaces where "good enough" genuinely isn't — because the users are power users doing real work, and they notice.
I lean on research, test early and often, and use AI as a genuine part of the workflow — for synthesis, iteration, and getting to better questions faster.