My only distinguishing skill is coding. I got my current job because I took a Python class as part of my cert, and while I’m still a beginner (but may have a bit of imposter syndrome?) and have to do some research and piece things together to make my scripts work, I’ve built some tools that I’m really proud of, my supervisors fawn over, and have saved my team weeks of work. That kind of validation has me thinking I want to pursue the software development side of GIS further, but I’m not sure what my next steps should be.

Anyway, I hope that’s enough to get me in the door somewhere. A master’s in some GIS-adjacent discipline is probably in my future, but I’m not there yet.