ABOUT · COREY PETERSON
Not a guru.
A guide who actually made the crossing.
I got my first corporate job in 2021, at 34 years old, with no college degree and eleven years of work that didn't look good on paper. Bartending. Oil fields. Real estate. Car sales. The kind of jobs the "right people" at "good companies" don't take seriously until you can translate what they actually taught you.
Three years later I'm a Solutions Engineer at an AI company — I spend my days helping enterprise buyers figure out what this new technology is actually good for. Turns out that's weirdly good preparation for helping people figure out what their own skills are actually worth. Along the way I built a bar business from zero to $50k in revenue and sold it — while keeping the day job. I'm building this whole thing right now, the same way.
The Career Translator exists because I figured out the game, and it's not a mystery. You don't need to quit your job and bet on yourself. You don't need a bootcamp. You don't need permission. You need someone who will tell you what the jargon actually means, show you where the free tools are, and stop talking down to you like you can't hear.
$ git log --author="corey" --oneline
The commit history.
NOTE TO FILE Every commit that looks like a "failure" on paper was actually a credential. Bartending taught me grace under pressure. Car sales taught me stakeholder management. Oil fields taught me showing up. That's the whole translation job — figuring out which skills you already have, in the language corporate uses to hire.