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I'm Krissy Ferris. I'm the Chief of Staff at
Proof+Geist, and I'm also the lead facilitator at

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WIT FM, the women FileMaker organization. My story
is somewhat of a typical one for the FileMaker

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world, but not necessarily a typical one for
the tech world. That is, that I was in a totally

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different role, working for a medical office.
We needed a tech solution to manage our data.

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We had data that we could not capture adequately
using the systems that already existed,

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and so we started looking around. That
was how we first came to FileMaker, and we

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built a solution from the ground up. Eventually,
as that solution grew, we needed to do sort of

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more and more complex data management things
with it. And, so my skills with FileMaker

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grew as the solution grew. And eventually,
uh, grew to the point where I felt

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really comfortable doing it, and also really enjoyed
doing it, and wanted to make it a career.

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Working with FileMaker has given me
a ton of freedom in my life and even--

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originally, that was probably one of the main
attractions for me, was that I knew that I could

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both pick what clients I wanted to work with
and also what I wanted my life to look like.

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I think that probably not having a background
in tech might be helpful in moving into this

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space. If you can think about problems and
be able to break them down and analyze them

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and think about things on a step-by-step basis,
then the tech is sort of just the language.

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So, the, the thinking part is the hard
part, and the language can come later.

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And you can, you can add that layer, whether it's
FileMaker or it's Connect, or whatever it is,

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you can add the layer of the language onto
the thinking. But it's much, much harder

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to train the thinking. I think that going to Engage
is really important if you can manage to do it.

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Because, for the most part, we're a community
that works remotely. It keeps getting bigger and

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it still feels like a close, tight-knit community
of people who are totally willing to go out of

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their way to do anything they can to help you. And
I think that is pretty magical, to be able to have, um,

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both a community that, that is growing and also
one that still feels like it can be a safe

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home base for you. If you enjoy solving
problems, then you'll be happy here.