The last year of my university years was a horrible time. You need money; you studied business; you actually wanted to be an actor, why did you study business; you still have some dignity salted with ego so that you don't wanna get melted into a corporate; you think maybe academia is the way; you think who is gonna afford another investment for studying something nobody cares anymore and there are already millions "copy" of you out there; you search for something meaningful in life for yourself although you know very little about yourself; you really need money.

Amidst this chaotic early youth mantra, I find myself in an agri-tech startup in İstanbul where I can at least afford to live. After my first dearest task of researching marijuana legalization, somehow, I ended up researching how to classify satellite imagery to detect tomato fields. An economist guy from my university, Sinan, showed me how he visualizes an NDVI band literally in Excel by adjusting cells and giving them numbers and colors accordingly. Luckily, we got Betül doing her masters in geomatics at that time, and she said: "Look kids..." while we were looking with an empty face and started to explain the business here.

After getting the basics from Betül, I did what I've been doing since I was 7 years old: I started to surf the internet alone. My walk started into this clergy of people sharing everything they know with me. Contacted many people on Linkedin, watched Youtube videos, read blogs, never understood PyQGIS, hired by a guy among those people and moved to Berlin, where I started acting after years, attended FOSS4Gs, saw many in-person that I was stalking online, met randomly with people from Yer Çizenler & HOT during a disaster relief, felt some meaning, felt in my nerves deeply that I'm not alone in this shapeless Earth, at least not always.

I'll try to summarize what I've found that helped me from the 0-state getting into the industry for the kids like me out there.

Ćao, djeco!