I grew up in East New York, Brooklyn — not the Brooklyn of coffee shops and startup loft offices. The kind where you learn early that nobody is coming to fix your schedule for you.
Remote work wasn't a lifestyle choice at first. It was the only lane that didn't require a car, a commute I couldn't afford, or pretending I had a network I didn't have.
What transferred
Written follow-through. Remote contract work lives or dies in the inbox. Stewart Leadership, Seal Shield, Rolling Robots — different industries, same muscle: read carefully, reply completely, close the loop. The people who get rehired are the ones who don't need a reminder.
Systems over heroics. Airtable, Sheets, HubSpot, Zoho — boring tools that keep work from falling through cracks. I'm not the person who white-knuckles chaos. I'm the person who builds a list and works it. That discipline transfers to accounting the same way it transfers to operations.
Customer-facing calm. Ecommerce support taught me that most "technical" issues are really communication issues. Someone's order is wrong. They're frustrated. You fix the thing and the feeling. That's bookkeeping too — the client doesn't care about debits and credits. They care that someone handled it.
What I had to rebuild
Financial vocabulary. I could ship a WooCommerce catalog before I could read a balance sheet cleanly. WGU and ProAdvisor training closed that gap — slowly, honestly. Learning to speak the language of the people who actually run businesses.
Patience with compound bets. Decades of cash-driven pivots teach you urgency. Accounting school teaches you that some payoffs take quarters, not days. I'm still learning to hold both.
Las Vegas, Pacific time
I'm in Las Vegas now. Pacific hours, remote US roles — no hybrid office requirement, no "must be in SF three days a week."
If you're building a remote team and need someone who treats the inbox like a job site — not a side quest — I'd like to hear from you.