Today’s story is adapted from the Cloud Resume Challenge Book (10% off at that link!), which breaks down many more inspiring stories of people who

The greatest resume I've ever seen - by Forrest Brazeal

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2024-05-07 11:00:02

Today’s story is adapted from the Cloud Resume Challenge Book (10% off at that link!), which breaks down many more inspiring stories of people who followed a nontraditional path to cloud.

Let me tell you the story of the greatest cloud resume I’ve ever seen. It contained zero professional IT experience, which is partly why it was so great. But to really convey the unlikely brilliance of this resume, we have to start at the beginning. The stinky beginning.

When COVID-19 hit, Daniel Singletary was already pretty much fed up with his job. As a commercial and residential plumber in metro Atlanta, he pulled 11-hour days working some of the dirtiest, stinkiest problems in the country.

Take, for example, the day he got a call about an unexplained odor in a suburban shopping strip. Daniel and a coworker headed to the scene. There was no mistaking the smell. It was sewage, and it was raw.

On a reconnaissance trip to the restrooms, Daniel noticed something odd: a current of air was flowing around the base of the toilets. When he levered a commode off the floor, he staggered backwards, hit by a blast of noxious wind. "Imagine," he wrote later, "a leaf blower blowing sewer gas in your face." Not only is this unusual, it shouldn't even be possible. Sewer pipes don't blow air. And yet somehow, this entire shopping strip was passing gas.