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Spirit of an artist and the mind of a technician.

Former student of operatic performance, turned hospitality savant, and recent convert into one with a preference for the technical world with a newfound analytical frame of mind. After two years of studying IT and applying to entry-level positions, I have decided to step back and reassess how I should proceed in regards to my education and future career paths.

I confess that I still have a desire to work with technology in some capacity, but I also have a true desire to help others in some capacity (that isn't nursing). The healthcare industry has two sectors that I keep turning to, with one being akin to Social Work and the other being the forgotten stepchild of IT.

I am in the process of attempting to start learning about IT for healthcare by starting with the most crucial components of its very foundation: medical billing and coding (also known by medical records, health information management, and others). Essentially, it is possibly one of, if not the most crucial form of data entry today while also being considered a stepping stone into healthcare as a career. Also, it is the only sector of healthcare IT with the most readily available information to date.

Beyond this prior field of study, my goal is to gain education on Public Health rather than Health Sciences or Healthcare Administration. No matter what undergraduate degree I pursue, unless I screw things up as I tend to do, my end goal is to be accepted into a joint graduate degree program for Public Health and Social Work through LSU and LSUHSC New Orleans.

Despite the changes being made by AI in every industry, despite all of the use cases that we now have even with our continued doubts, and despite the continued attempts to give AI the capability of generating human-like responses and behaviors, at the end of the day, what's underneath is still just code.

Some matters in life will forever call for a certain type of human touch. My last program of study was centered around developing ways for humans to work in tandem with AI and focused heavily on the ethics of the work itself. This new education and career plan I've developed for myself shifts the focus back to what should be our focus for the future: society and our ever-growing population.

The secondary focus is developing ways of working with AI as it continues to grow in order to find and maintain policy changes and systems of care for the foreseeable future. AI is a tool for the generations of today to learn to master, but we can't forget about caring for the people telling the machines how they are meant to behave.

I'm utilizing Codecademy and OpenLearn at the moment while reconsidering which, if any, certifications to pursue. Because I'm following a more interdisciplinary "curriculum", I've no projects in the works that one might usually share. Unless anyone is into wireframes, markdown documents, and vibe-coded builds that are built using DeepSeek V4. The output is on par if not better than Claude and GPT so far.

Life-long learner with an affinity for commonplace books. Bibliophile with a collection of literary fiction, fantasy, computing literature, and more than a few "That's a pretty cover." options to choose from. There's also my Boox and Kindle libraries, but even I can't keep up with that.