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Question of the Week: How has FME shaped your career path and did it open doors you didn't expect?

  • June 23, 2026
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Hi everyone! A new job. A promotion. A project that changed everything. Sometimes a tool does more than the work. It changes the trajectory. 🚀  How has FME shaped your career path and did it open doors you didn't expect? Drop your FME career story in the comments below! 

📢 P.S. The Talent Exchange just got some big updates. Safe Software will now post open roles there, it's open to any organization hiring for FME work (not just partners), and freelancers can now post their availability for contract work. Whether you're hiring or looking, check it out! 

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      • crutledgeInfluencer
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      • June 23, 2026

      As a person that was greatly influenced by Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go; I am instantly attracted to the idea of FME and ETLs. Everything has a specialty, is connected to each other and together fulfill a function. Brilliant. 

      And like the book it is often in the background where the details lie and where the interesting things happen.

      So I started using FME, like many across Ontario, to access provincial datasets. Did I know this directly? No but my download package hinted at it with its uuid filename and "fme" hidden there in the log file.

      And once FME was directly in my hands the personal connections, ideas and knowledge sharing began. I cannot think of a software that best mirrors the way I think.  Process mapping and workflows are the starting point now not diving into data right way as I would have with a geospatial or analysis ask. Thinking like FME, Readers and Writers and Transformers....brings me back to Cars and Trucks and Things That Go.

      Add on to this a genuine community of supportive experts and a company that stands behind pushing and developing the product with the user community. I have to say FME has shaped my entire approach to problem solving. And that's just great with me! :D

       

      At your rest service ^B

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