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Teresa Martyny
May 05, 2016
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RailsConf 2016 - Director to Intern: Changing Careers as a Single Mom
Teresa Martyny
May 05, 2016
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Director to Intern: Changing Careers as a Single Mom Teresa
Martyny @tynymama
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“...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
Nasdaq Composite Index
Just Until Things Pick Up...
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13 Years Later...
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“Most students are in our building 12 hours a day,
six days a week.”
$13,950
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Self Care
Why?
Mentor
Rockets
Celebrate My Failures
Interviewing
“You’re Amazing!”
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Software Engineer Intern
“What does ____ give us?”
“I hear what you’re saying, but I don’t understand this
at a more basic level.”
“I noticed ___ breaks the build randomly, what’s another approach
we could use?”
“I haven’t tested a situation like this before. What do
I need to consider?”
“You write the most scalable, well tested, object oriented software.”
“You write the most scalable, well tested, object oriented software.”
“You ask the best questions of any of our past
interns.”
Solo Project
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Software Engineer
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I’m Still Ignorant
My Mind Still Goes Blank
Take Chances Make Mistakes Get Messy - Ms. Frizzle