While my background is an IT business analyst, I've always been drawn to roles where I can contribute to the efficiency and organization of a team or office environment. After being laid off from my last position, I thought about my career goals and the type of environment where I can thrive, and I realized that what I like the most is being in a role where I can make a tangible impact, and the office assistant job really, I think, aligns well with that goal. I see it as an opportunity to deepen and broaden my skill set and adaptability into stepping into a different role with another organization. With my experience as being a business analyst, I developed some really strong organizational and problem-solving skills that are, I think, really transferable to the role of an office assistant. I'm accustomed to managing complex data sets, coordinating with project stakeholders, and identifying opportunities for improving business processes, and all of these really contribute to maintaining office efficiency, managing schedules, and ensuring, like, the smooth day-to-day operations, and having that experience in IT really gives me strong skills in software and technology that maybe I could help other people in the office. Prior to my business analysis, business analyst work experience that I did for a year and a half, I also had various office assistant-type roles, including career center receptionist for a university, an office assistant for the Department of Defense, and so it's a role that I'm fairly familiar with.