Despite only being in the world of Research Data Management for 3 years I’ve accumulated a wide range of work experience in two countries (US & UK). I’ve been a social science data curator, trained librarians in RDM and qualitative methods; and am currently developing data services from scratch, launching a data repository, and training researchers in RDM and Open Data. I want to focus on training early career researchers in open research and tackle “hard to share” data (e.g. qualitative social science data or data produced with industrial partners) by shifting people from seeing their data as exceptions to openness to seeking solutions to sharing “hard” data.