To all the talented recent or not-so-recent grads of liberal arts and sciences, those who followed their hearts and studied what they were passionate about regardless of the job market, I’m talking to you.

There’s a place for you in tech.

Let’s be completely honest. You probably went to grad school because the economy was bad when you graduated and it was more fun to continue learning than figure out what your first real job would be. I get it!

You could actually be doing some pretty amazing things in the tech industry that you probably never thought you were qualified for (which could seriously help with those student loans).

I used to think tech was one big all boys club where you have to have the right contact list just to make it through the front door. *Not true anymore (thanks to anonymous recruiting platforms like Workey)!

You’ve probably heard about the awesome benefits of working in the tech industry: the free food, the foosball, the crazy catered happy hours. I used to scroll through my Facebook newsfeed on the train to my old office where if you were lactose intolerant or vegan, you had to bring your own soy milk because only regular milk was provided by the company (and in limited amounts). The coffee machine was broken from my first day to my last and I’d look at my techie friends’ posts from their random work sushi parties and think WTF.

Now I work at a fast-paced exciting startup and enjoy the lifestyle that goes along with it. And guess what: if we run out of soy milk — two more will be delivered before the end of the day. But aside from the free food and the benefits, I had no idea that my creativity could be channeled in such a way that I have become a creator along with my team.

The fun lifestyle and perks pale in comparison to the feeling of being a part of something you believe in.

Us millennials dream of creating, changing, and disrupting. So believe me when I tell you that you too can take part in this exciting industry.

You don’t need to be a software engineer to be in tech — and a damn important part of tech to boot!

Brooke Weinbaum holds a liberal arts degree and quickly rose to an indispensable leader of a tech startup through her excellent writing and self-taught marketing expertise. She is now the Head of Marketing at Copyleaks, a cloud-based plagiarism detection software.

Brooke Weinbaum, Head of Marketing @ Copyleaks at the Microsoft Tech Summit in London, December 2016

Brooke is a friend of mine and let’s be honest: I was pretty jealous of her. I didn’t understand how she got from point A to point B and then I realized that she pretty much just dived right in. Brooke saw the potential and marketed herself to a content position by highlighting her past experiences in which she had utilized common skills with content writing. Despite having no solid content writing or marketing experience, she got herself in the door.

It’s not luck — it’s putting yourself in the right place at the right time instead of waiting for luck.

“When I first joined a startup I had finished college only three months before and had a passion for writing. I was able to learn hands on about marketing online through Facebook, Google, and of course our company blog! I remember once working all night for a Black Friday list that made it to the first page of Google, I couldn’t believe it. Since then I’ve worked at three other companies all with a focus on marketing and our community.” -Brooke Weinbaum

Content marketing is the new reality and most tech companies will need people of language to put all their writing prowess to use. The days of loud banner ads are numbered and inbound marketing increasingly requires genuinely thoughtful content.

That’s right — marketing writing isn’t just writing descriptions of kitchen appliances! You can actually have an exciting and creative career as a writer, and actually make money.

The world has digitized and effective professional writing is perhaps more important than ever. Your English mistakes are not just printed on a piece of paper that will vanish from the earth with the next news cycle. Your words can live forever online and create, shape, and maintain exciting brands — brands you believe in.

Again, you don’t need to be a full stack software developer to enjoy the excitement and accomplishments of tech companies.

Tech companies are always looking for new talent in project management, account management, marketing, sales, business development, and customer success. Under these umbrellas, there are hidden gem positions you might not have considered before. These positions hold a tremendous amount of power over a product.

Large tech companies also need accounting, legal, finance, design, research, purchasing, human resources, and more. All of these positions work alongside engineers to make the tech industry function and certainly enjoy the perks of the tech world just like engineers.

According to a study by “Break Into Tech” on 526,268 tech professionals on LinkedIn, there are actually 3x more non-technical roles than the traditional tech roles we think of.

The perfect line of code means nothing without being put to good use with the right people shaping and packaging it to reach the target audience and make some money to fuel those amazing job perks.

In sum, non-technical workers are the jelly to programmers’ peanut butter. One without the other just doesn’t do the trick.

So, go get coffee with as many friends of friends as possible.

Ask people about their jobs and actively listen.

Ask questions and repeat.

Fight your timidness with all you’ve got because no one will chase you to bring you into the inner circle.

You are the only one who can take your career to the next level or get your foot in the right door.

Sign up for Workey to put your anonymous profile in front of companies that matter and companies you otherwise would have no idea how to reach.

You would be amazed at how diverse and fascinating tech positions can be and inspired to discover that most of them started in your shoes. The first step is seeing what’s out there and identifying what fits.

You might not realize that the skills and experience you already have can be applied to completely different role in tech.

Rewrite your resume to highlight your marketable skills even if your experiences don’t 100% line up to the job description. As long as you’re willing to start at the bottom (since after all, you have no experience), I have a feeling you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Trust me, if I can do it, so can you.