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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is Hello Monday, our show about

the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us. What happens when you go to school for a certain career and then all the

jobs go away? It's not a new problem. I mean think switchboard operators or more recently

travel agents but as technology speeds

everything up this is happening much more often and no matter what you do it's

likely your industry will change at some point I, that's really what Hello Monday is all about,

helping you be ready for that change.

Well, today you'll hear from Lauren Mafia.

Lauren's a listener.

We get so many letters from listeners that earlier this year we started

running listener spotlights. Your stories. Lauren started as a journalist. She loved it, but she didn't really see a straightforward future in her field.

So this year, yes, in the middle of a pandemic, she made a big pivot. Now it wasn't easy.

Lauren's in what she calls the awkward teenager phase of her career.

No longer a beginner but you know not really senior. In this episode she'll explain how she chose

Newfield what she did to prepare for it, and how she landed her first job.

Today Lauren is a civic tech service designer.

Maybe you're wondering, well, what's that mean?

I started our conversation by asking her.

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