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I’ve rarely heard anyone tell me about so many professional experiences in so few years. “You can make a resume say whatever you want”. In about seven years, Cindy has had eight jobs in very different companies (start-ups, SMEs IT services companies, French and foreign), and at the same time, she was, for fun, a mystery …: “I’ve seen a lot of countries LOL”.

Each of these experiences was aimed at understanding her professional environment, “eating” knowledge, and acquiring “know-how”. She liked some of the jobs. Some she didn’t. The bottom line: “Even when I had a perfect atmosphere around me, it wasn’t enough to be happy at work”. The salaried employment definitely didn’t suit her. When you move from job to job, and you experience those positions as means, there are no failures or successes. You learn from every situation. That’s the feeling I get from her journey as an employee. Never any real disappointment, just better understanding by doing, the field of possibilities.

Of course she told me, she tried her hand at learning code and she didn’t like it. It’s that the teacher had a teaching method that was just inadequate. Indeed, the latter was obviously making his students work on the code without telling them what the purpose was. No wonder some kind of spirit like Cindy’s couldn’t get to grips with it. Cindy “works” to the rationally thought-out goal of being good for her. This has helped her to improve project management and gain efficiency with developers and she knows how to make simple small websites. Not bad!

During all the years she worked and earned a salary, Cindy says she went from the best to the worst. “Starting in a start-up and ending up in a big company is very complicated … it’s like going from efficient to … politically correct and slow.” Along the way, a passion for digital marketing emerged. This was not very well developed in some companies.

All these experiences of paid work, of “prison”, were finally summed up very well by Cindy: “I took everything there was to take with the goal, one day, of launching my business”. And it was with a strong value component, attention to others and above all remaining accessible, that she launched herself into entrepreneurship very early on.

Her first “solo” entrepreneurial experience was when she was still a student. It is with professional precision that Cindy explained to me in detail the reasons for the failure of this first experience. Such hindsight is quite rare; believe my modest experience with entrepreneurs.