Wanting More Stability 

Hasisha spent nearly a decade as a freelance enrichment teacher for children, tutoring students in business skills, tech skills, and math. She had studied business herself, and teaching felt like a natural fit. But freelance life came with a catch she couldn’t ignore forever: the income was unpredictable, and there was no floor beneath her.

When she got injured and couldn’t work, reality hit hard. “If you don’t turn up, you don’t get paid.” With no sick days, no safety net, and no clear path forward, Hasisha knew she needed a change to secure her future. “I was chasing, just taking on any work that came to me as opposed to really choosing.” She wanted something different: structure, dependability, a career she was building and growing in.

A New Direction 

A spark of inspiration came through the classroom. Hasisha had picked up coding and AI to teach it to students, and found herself genuinely fascinated by what she was introducing them to. She wanted to go deeper. So she started researching what was out there, and who was hiring in this realm. That’s when she found Generation Singapore’s Cloud Computing and DevOps program. 

The course was intensive and largely self-directed. She fell behind at points and doubted herself. “I was thinking, oh my god, everyone else is probably doing really well, I don’t want to have wasted my time.” But Generation’s mentorship and mindset frameworks helped her persevere. At first, she was skeptical that this part of the curriculum would make a huge difference for her. But by the end, the behavioral and soft skills approaches to work that she learned,  “hit the singles first,” ask for help, keep moving, had changed how she thought about learning itself, and allowed her to succeed in new ways.

Learning and Growing Every Day

Today, Hasisha works as a Technical Support Assistant, placed through Generation’s employer partner network. She deploys changes to software, monitors logs, and runs QA. 

The stability she spent years searching for is now here. “You know what you’re going to get at the end of the month. You don’t have to think about it, you don’t worry about it, that’s already a peace of mind for me.” She’s saving and investing in a way that wasn’t possible before. She’s joined women-in-tech networks and found the field far more welcoming than she’d expected, even as a newcomer. And her confidence has expanded in step with her skills. “I feel like there’s a lot of possibilities for me, and I’m quite excited to explore them.”