A few weeks ago I was part of a careers in tech panel at a local college, hosted by my old Computing teacher.

I introduced myself with “hi, I’m Issy, I failed most of my A Levels and now I work for GitHub as a senior engineer.”

People said to me afterwards that it was great that I was so honest explaining the path that I took (lots of trial and error, and pushing the comfort zone saying yes to things including this public speaking!), giving hope to kids who aren’t “traditional”.