Blaž Ciglenečki
Strategic Ops
What does it mean to lead a good life?
From early on, I was guided by the drive to understand the fundamental existential questions, especially what it means to lead a good life. The best way to start approaching them seemed to be through ethics - a discipline that forces one to step out of the confines of one's own opinions and start interacting with others, building something new together.I studied law to get a decent overview of human interactions' current framework and try to glimpse their underlying core principles and drivers. The search for a macro perspective later motivated me to search for a non-traditional career path for a legal professional. I consider myself a bookworm, but one can only get so far with books, and as far as action is concerned, I believe that the most interesting (inter)action is currently to be found in the business world, especially in the tech sector.
I, therefore, became interested in the transition from being a specialized lawyer to becoming a more business-oriented professional who also has to occupy himself with the ever-changing big-picture (although the minute details of certain conventions are always a part of the whole).
The logic behind this transition turned out to be a sensible one when, after working for a year as an associate in a law firm, I became an internal auditor in a bank and started working on projects that required me to work on my business acumen, a task that I found deeply fulfilling. After two challenging years at the bank, I realized that I wanted to improve my existing analytical and writing skills and thus went back to school. Now, after almost two years of engaging with theory, I am ready to shake off the rust and start building something new again – DevRev!