Hello everybody and welcome to the Arden Labs podcast and our special guest today is the one and only Jessica Green all the way from Berlin. How are you today?

Hello. Good. We're having typical May, April weather. We just had a massive downpour outside.

When does it start getting so hot that you can't even buy a fan? Isn't that like around June?

I mean, you still got time. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Anyway, we're not here to talk about weather and below. We're here to talk about you. So

why don't you start very quickly and just give everybody like kind of two minutes around what

you're doing today. So today I am a software engineer focused predominantly on back end at Ecosia, which is the search engine that plants trees.

And I have been working there for about two and a half years now.

And it's actually my first job in tech.

So I'm a career changer.

Nice.

And it's one of the reasons you went to work there because they're really

focused on environmental issues with tech? Yeah, it was definitely a massive plus. I have to say when I was

looking for my first job, I would have probably been open to pretty much any job, to be honest,

as I think most people would probably agree.

But it was definitely a huge draw for me.

So my job just before getting into tech was in the coffee industry, in the specialty coffee industry,

where we were very much focused around telling the story of coffee producers and the whole process behind how coffee ends up in your cup.

So it really attracted me that this was another company that really focused on that message of sustainability and of people and telling people's stories.

Okay, I'm going to have you go all the way back to like when you're, I can never remember what

the equivalent is in Europe for like high school.

They don't call it high school, right?

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