How Did You Go From a Programmer to a Developer Relations Person?

How did you go from being a programmer to an advocate? How was your process and how was the typical process insofar as you know that? My path is really weird and probably not generally applicable. I organized hackathons myself as a student. And so they opened an internship position for me and I joined as an intern. But then after he graduated and went on to do a, to start doing a PhD in essentially programming language design,. Because I had this feeling that being a developer was far harder than it should be. Then I was up there in remote Scotland working on this PhD and was kind of like, oh, wait, I can get paid to help developers instead. So my path