[TriLUG] The biggest deterrent for women in tech

Brandon Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Thu May 2 17:18:57 EDT 2013


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:49 PM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:

> I had the same job search problem from 2003-2004 (13 months unemployed
> because nobody wanted a junior programmer with <5 years of full time
> professional experience).  Ended up leaving NC to find a job and (except to
> get some DMV records) haven't been back.  Thus my status as a long-term
> expatriate member of TriLUG :-)


In that timeframe I was in Seattle.  I learned how to gather signatures for
ballot initiatives.  Didn't give up on computers or game development
though.  Did open source stuff in between signature gathering seasons.
 Came back to NC, got some telecommute work with Mozilla in 2007.


Cheers,
Brandon



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