Flip totally different right into a superpower
In the meantime, for Angelina Liu, industrial gross sales supervisor at SentinelOne, when she moved from Singapore to Australia at 17, she didn’t look forward to finding herself in cybersecurity, or to later uncover how her ADHD would grow to be one in every of her biggest strengths. Rising up, ADHD wasn’t one thing individuals mentioned brazenly.
“Twenty-five years in the past, there wasn’t a number of information about being on a spectrum, particularly in Asia. The tradition is simply, ‘Oh, there’s one thing mistaken with you’,” she says. “So, my dad and mom determined very early on that I ought to go to Australia pondering individuals are extra accommodating. Once I got here right here, I beloved it, as a result of it was true.”
Angelina Liu
Angelina Liu
After finding out biochemistry, Liu realized life in a lab wasn’t for her. She labored odd jobs, from promoting barbecue rotisseries in regional Australia to driving a forklift, earlier than discovering her method into advertising, coding, and finally cybersecurity gross sales. Her neurodivergence, nevertheless, made the transition to company life difficult. “Once I entered company, it was onerous as a result of I might be very concerned about issues and excel at them, and if I wasn’t, it was very forceful for me,” she says. “However I’ve realized I may flip that wrestle into sort of a superpower.”
