RailsConf 2016 - Director to Intern: Changing Careers as a Single Mom

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1. Director to Intern: Changing Careers as a Single Mom Teresa Martyny @tynymama
9. “...employment in Silicon Valley high-tech industries declined by about 17 percent, representing a loss of slightly more than 85,000 jobs” -Bureau of Labor Statistics
10. Nasdaq Composite Index
11. Just Until Things Pick Up...
19. 13 Years Later...
21. “Most students are in our building 12 hours a day, six days a week.”
22. $13,950
27. Self Care
28. Why?
29. Mentor
30. Rockets
31. Celebrate My Failures
32. Interviewing
33. “You’re Amazing!”
38. Software Engineer Intern
39. “What does ____ give us?”
40. “I hear what you’re saying, but I don’t understand this at a more basic level.”
41. “I noticed ___ breaks the build randomly, what’s another approach we could use?”
42. “I haven’t tested a situation like this before. What do I need to consider?”
43. “You write the most scalable, well tested, object oriented software.”
44. “You write the most scalable, well tested, object oriented software.”
45. “You ask the best questions of any of our past interns.”
46. Solo Project
49. Software Engineer
52. I’m Still Ignorant
53. My Mind Still Goes Blank
54. Take Chances Make Mistakes Get Messy - Ms. Frizzle