'Jeopardy' champ Amy Schneider's new favorite career tip: It 'kind of blew my mind' (via CNBCMakeIt)
as an engineering manager; married her wife, Genevieve; visited the White House; became the first openly transgender woman to qualify for the game show's Tournament of Champions, and took home the $250,000 top prize in November.
Don't get locked into this idea that the only way to succeed is to do whatever your plan was starting out.Schneider says embracing the twists and turns of life is something she hopes to impart on younger people, particularly young women interested in starting careers in tech. She recalls planning to go into civil engineering but then "cut my losses on that and found something else to do.
To figure out what new challenges you want to take on, Schneider says it's helpful to figure out your own mission statement, which is a piece of advice she got from a former boss.
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