My best career decision was transitioning from wet lab biology to computational genomics during my postdoc circa 2011. I saw the kinds of DNA sequencing analys

My best career decision was transitioning from wet lab biology to computational genomics during my postdoc circa 2011. I saw the kinds of DNA sequencing analysis our collaborators were doing and said "hey, I could do that", so I checked out all the R books from the library and taught myself some stuff. And then around that time both Coursera and Insight data science were just starting to become a thing, so I looked up the Insight curriculum and cobbled together my own version with Coursera and made a genomic data viz website. That computational transition set me up to go into data science in 2014, which has turned out to be a succession of being in the right place at the right time for incredible learning and growth opportunities, but it never would've happened if I hadn't decided to analyze my own sequencing data.