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From Lab Coats to AI: How Specialized Skills Transfer Across Industries
What happens when someone questions your career pivot from a specialized field to something completely different?
Brad Draper faced this exact scenario when a longtime vendor questioned his transition from running a dietary supplement testing laboratory to launching an AI technology company. The vendor suggested Brad was wasting over a decade of specialized chemistry and laboratory expertise by venturing into an unfamiliar industry.
But here's the twist: Brad discovered his "superpower" wasn't actually in chemistry—it was in data analysis and storytelling. Those years of analyzing samples…
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