The Quest Begins (The "Why") Honestly, I felt like I was stuck in the opening scene of The Matrix —surrounded by green code that made zero sense, except this time the code was my résumé. I’d spent weeks polishing every bullet, swapping “responsible for” for “led,” and yet every application felt like tossing a coin into the Death Star’s exhaust port: hopeful, but ultimately futile. Recruiters would glance at my PDF for about six seconds (I timed it with a stopwatch—yes, I’m that person) and then