[patrickkidd]

I've been a software engineer since the late 90's and left to get a clinical psychology doctorate from 2014-2020. That was partly from looking for a change but mostly because there are Virtually no well paying software jobs here in Alaska. Around the same time that I graduated, Covid opened up the national remote market here and now I'm back to software.

My interest in human behavior was fueled by family systems theory which really lens itself to engineering thinking about predictable patterns and human systems. It is by far the most objective set of concepts I've seen that explain about human behavior. I still participate in that professional network and have an app for diagramming automatic versus deliberate behavior in a family system over time. Now I just have to figure out how to make it my job still planning for retirement.