My approval after a career that doesn't fit the 'typical' EB-1A mold

Posting this because most of the success stories I read before filing were from more conventional academic or corporate research backgrounds, and my path (moving between industry, a nonprofit role, and some independent consulting work) didn't map neatly onto those examples. Sharing this in case it's useful to someone else whose career doesn't fit the typical narrative either — again, my specific case, not a template for anyone else's. The challenge wasn't finding evidence — I actually had a fair amount across my different roles — it was building a coherent narrative connecting work that, on paper, looked like several disconnected jobs rather than one continuous trajectory. My personal statement ended up doing a lot of work explaining the throughline: a consistent focus area across the different organizational contexts I'd worked in. What I'd tell someone in a similar position: an unconventional career path isn't a weakness for this process, but it does mean the narrative-building work matters more than it might for someone with a more linear path — you have to do more explicit work connecting the dots that a conventional single-employer trajectory might make more automatically legible to a reviewer.