The Backstory

Out of the shadows

Jennifer Turliuk sitting on a couch with her elbow resting on the back of the couch and her other hand sitting in her lap.

Photography by Ashley Klassen

When Jennifer Turliuk, Com카지노 게임 컬렉션™10, reflects on her life journey, she thinks about the wisdom Steve Jobs shared in his 2005 Stanford commencement speech: 카지노 게임 컬렉션œYou can카지노 게임 컬렉션™t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.카지노 게임 컬렉션

When Jennifer took the time to connect her own dots, she realized there was a book in them.

Her journey started early, when a Harry Potter website she coded in elementary school went viral after being featured in a children카지노 게임 컬렉션™s magazine.

By the time she graduated from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s, Jennifer카지노 게임 컬렉션™s interests had evolved and she was ready to enter the corporate world. Less than a year into her first job, though, she realized that world wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션™t for her. In search of a new start, she entered a competition to job-shadow a Silicon Valley angel investor. She was so confident in her chances of winning that she quit her job and moved to California. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œI didn카지노 게임 컬렉션™t win,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션œbut I realized that I still wanted to shadow people.카지노 게임 컬렉션

For the next six months, Jennifer lived in the shadows, job-shadowing everyone from Stanford professors to the founders of Kiva and Airbnb. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œI was figuring out what I wanted to do and what kind of environment I wanted to do it in,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says.

After deciding that she preferred small for-profit companies, Jennifer set out to start one of her own. In 2012 she attended NASA카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Singularity 카지노게임사이트, where she learned about using exponential technologies such as 3D-printing to help solve some of the world카지노 게임 컬렉션™s most pressing challenges. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œI chose to focus on education,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션œbecause if you help people level up their educations, you empower them to help in other areas as well.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Remembering how empowering her childhood coding experience had been, she started MakerKids, a Toronto-based company that is inspiring thousands of kids around the world to become entrepreneurs and innovators through virtual camps, programs, and parties. 

As she connected the dots that brought her to MakerKids, Jennifer realized she had created a viable process that could help people find satisfying careers quickly. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œIt was all about how to go from a place of overwhelm with thousands of possibilities to a place of knowing what makes the most sense for you,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says.

Her realization led her to write an article for Forbes and then expand it into a book, How to Figure Out What to Do With Your Life (Next), released by Dundurn Press in March.

카지노 게임 컬렉션œThe productivity crisis in North America is a trillion-dollar crisis, and it카지노 게임 컬렉션™s directly attributed to dissatisfaction at work,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Jennifer says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œMy hope is to move the needle 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ even slightly 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ so more people can find satisfying work, and that way we can have more people tackling the world카지노 게임 컬렉션™s grand challenges with their full potential.카지노 게임 컬렉션

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