172: Let's talk about turning points in life! Career changes, entrepreneurship, moving abroad, etc.

Transitioning from designer to engineer was a major turning point.

Cheese-san, who is active as an engineer, originally worked as a designer. After encountering coding in a previous job, she gradually stepped into the field of development. She shares how it wasn't a sudden career change, but rather a gradual shift where her professional responsibilities overlapped like a gradient.

Taking on the challenge of the "discovery area" where job boundaries blur.

While currently working as an engineer, Cheese-san is also involved in the "discovery area," which is close to a PDM (Product Manager). The conversation touches on her ideal way of working: defining user needs and completing everything from prototyping to implementation on her own. Her strengths gained from her design background and her vision for building new processes using AI offer hints for how engineers should operate in the future.

We also reflected on an event that made us realize the depth and difficulty of research.

With past experience as a researcher, Cheese-san looks back on the importance of specialized skills, such as the difficulty of formulating "questions" to uncover a user's latent needs, and techniques for eliminating one's own biases to validate hypotheses. The conversation goes even deeper, so please be sure to listen to the full episode.