From IBM AI bootcamps to running her own: a one-year career pivot
iamKierraD · x · 2026-09-23
A practitioner shares that a year ago her job involved flying to clients to deliver bootcamps that sold and evangelized IBM's AI products; now she is paid to run her own bootcamp with her own curriculum. It is a small but concrete signal of AI training demand shifting from big-vendor-led programs toward independent instructors.
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