As someone in the middle of my career, looking toward 2026 feels both exciting and uncertain. We’re being asked to adapt to AI, new systems, and constant change while also keeping the lights on and mentoring newer talent, often without clear paths to grow ourselves. It sometimes feels like the industry is moving fast but career progression is moving slow. How do you see your role evolving over the next few years, and what needs to change to make insurance a place you can grow long term?

Sometimes I wonder if tech interviews are actually evolving or just pretending to. Ten years ago, I was solving data structures on a whiteboard. Now it’s live coding or a take-home challenge, but it’s still the same stress test with new branding. Even the culture fit phase feels like rebranded small talk to see if you’ll blend in. Companies keep saying they’re improving the process, but from where I’m sitting, it’s the same old hoops with shinier buzzwords. What’s been your experience?

I started where many of those posts come from. Long shifts, small pay, big doubts. I spent years in retail and hospitality wondering if growth was even real or just a buzzword managers used. What changed wasn’t luck. It was noticing gaps, training new hires, fixing small problems before anyone asked. One day I wasn’t just working the floor, I was leading it. Growth didn’t arrive loud. It showed up quietly, shift by shift, until I finally believed I was worth more.

I’ve been in healthcare admin for 10 years, and I’m still chasing signatures, printing forms, and faxing documents like it’s 1995. Every time we get a tech upgrade, it somehow adds more steps, more clicks, more logins, more hoops. Leadership calls it streamlining while my workload gets slower and clunkier. It’s exhausting watching progress move backward. How do you stay sane working with outdated systems everyone pretends are improvements?

In your opinion, what is the most important advancement in healthcare in the past 100 years? In my opinion, it is the proliferation of antibiotics, and I say that because it's my belief that antibiotics have lengthened the lifespan of every person. It wasn't that long ago that most people died young due to infections, and we have all but eliminated that situation. What do you think is the most important innovation in the past century?

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As a tech worker, I'm constantly expected to keep up with the speed of innovation—new tools, frameworks, and trends seem to drop every other week. But how do you stay relevant without burning out? Do you carve out time after hours to learn, or push back on the pressure to always be up to date? Wondering how others manage growth in a field that never slows down, while still having a life outside of work

I have been thinking about how hiring trends in tech often follow investment hype cycles. In the 90s, basic web development skills were enough because capital was flooding into dotcom companies and everyone was racing to scale. After the bubble burst, roles shrank and companies became far more selective. With AI roles booming today, are we setting ourselves up to repeat the same pattern?

After all your years in tech sales, what tech trend would you say has most changed your approach to enterprise deals? And how have you adapted? Throughout my career, I’ve found that embracing innovative technologies not only demanded agility but also encouraged a deeper understanding of clients’ changing challenges, which is transforms how trust and value are built in partnerships.