Hatch recently sat down with community member Jesse Morris who landed a role through Hatch to learn more about his early career story.
Hatch recently sat down with community member Jesse Morris who landed a role through Hatch in his early career. This write-up touches on Jesse’s early career at the intersection of mechatronics, computer science and teaching.
Finding a degree that was the right fit
During high school, Jesse was interested in history and physics, however went on to study mechatronics and computer science at university. Jesse felt as though engineering was the closest thing that aligned with his interests at the time.
Jesse said, “I think my friend who was studying mechatronics was like if you don't know which engineering to do because there's a number of different sort of streams, you should do mechatronics because it's sort of a couple of them in one.”
Jesse’s early role at Qantas
Aside from doing some high school coaching, Jesse hadn’t had any professional experience until he landed a role through Hatch during his first year at uni. The role Jesse secured was a Software Engineering Internship at Qantas. This was a really exciting time for Jesse, considering being so early on in his university degree. When asked what helped him land the role at Qantas he said "If you want something, you should know about what that thing is and you should ask lots of questions. You should appear to be keen and interested and it's ok if you don't know, that's not the point. The point is that you are willing to learn".
