Jaylene Hall on pivoting from music business to tech, starting a design TikTok, and leaving it all to move to Charleston.

Jaylene graduated college in 2020 with a music business degree and a touring internship that Covid wiped out, and for the first time she felt relief instead of disappointment. She picked up a design certification, messed around in Figma building app mockups, and realized tech was pulling at her. Four plus years later at Asurion, she had stability, mentors, and good income, and she's now stepping away from it to start over by the beach.

At 25 she bought her first rental, lived in it for a year, and repainted every wall and swapped light fixtures herself. That revamp became her interior design TikTok, where she mixes feminine colors with darker masculine tones.

Now she's packing boxes from for the move to Charleston, and the conversation lands on something meaningful: be intentional about fun, and don't save it for one week a year.

FAQs

1.Why is Jaylene leaving tech?

She's moving to Charleston with her fiance and giving herself space to choose what's next instead of rushing to the next thing.

2.How did she get into tech?

A UX design certification she earned at home during Covid pointed her toward the industry.

3.How did her interior design TikTok start?

She started documenting the revamp of the rental property she bought at 25.

4.What does she want to do next?

She's leaning toward project or change management, possibly in design, but she's letting herself decide without a fixed plan.

5.What's the one piece of advice she keeps hearing from older people? Be intentional about fun and don't put it off for someday.

It's okay to not have it all figured out, so find a creative outlet and pick the next thing on purpose.