Happy Tuesday! What inspired you to get into Logistics/SCM? Was it by choice or accident? Mine was by accident!

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Definitely something I just sort of fell into and went with. Not exactly my career aspirations, but I enjoy it and it pays the bills.

I think that is the general consensus when I bring up this topic. I was just a temp and landed my first gig about a decade ago and here I am, still here!

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I switched 20 days back to Optum. I have 7 years of experience working as a full stack Engineer, who is passionate working on both front end and back end on latest technologies. But my project is working only on back end with 10 years old tech stack. There is no front end work at all. What should I do?
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