Flip completely 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 anticipate finding herself in cybersecurity, or to later uncover how her ADHD would turn out to be one among her biggest strengths. Rising up, ADHD wasn’t one thing folks mentioned brazenly.
“Twenty-five years in the past, there wasn’t a number of data about being on a spectrum, particularly in Asia. The tradition is simply, ‘Oh, there’s one thing fallacious with you’,” she says. “So, my mother and father determined very early on that I ought to go to Australia pondering persons are extra accommodating. Once I got here right here, I beloved it, as a result of it was true.”
Angelina Liu
Angelina Liu
After learning 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 arduous as a result of I might be very focused on issues and excel at them, and if I wasn’t, it was very forceful for me,” she says. “However I’ve realized I might flip that battle into form of a superpower.”
