6 Jan 2025
As I complete 25 years in my career this year and today being the first day back at work, I felt it was worth pausing to reflect and share my journey. #25YearsInTech #CareerReflections 🧵
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23 May 2022
If you’re working somewhere that you’ve received the top annual review rating for a few years in a row, keep getting good raises and RSUs (especially in a place where not everyone gets RSUs), but keep being denied for promotion; their system is broken. #25YearsInTech
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18 May 2022
In the wake of DotCom and 911, I was left unemployed from Mar 2002 to Sept 2002, while my wife was pregnant. I went from making more $ than most of the adults I grew up around, to almost losing our house. #25YearsInTech
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17 May 2022
Formal education matters a lot less today. Knew someone who was dismissed from the waiting room before an interview (2002) because “you don’t actually have an IT degree.” Years later, I worked under a distinguished engineer who had a bachelor’s degree in english. #25YearsInTech
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12 May 2022
Speaking of open source, my request (2006) for a single Linux server (for R&D) was denied; mainly because “we are a Micro$oft shop.” So our desktop support team let me have a CSR’s old Dell workstation. Rebuilt it and ran Ubuntu under my desk for the next 7 years. #25YearsInTech
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11 May 2022
Before open source, large tech companies held all the cards, with the rest of us at their mercy. The rise of open source changed all of that. It was a complete shift of power from the few to the many. Easily the biggest, most influential change in the last #25YearsInTech.
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10 May 2022
At one place I worked (2003), morale was so low that they brought in a motivational speaker. She told us that “If you accept a paycheck from someone, you owe them your loyalty.” The auditorium was quiet until someone rhetorically asked "Do you work here?" #25YearsInTech
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9 May 2022
One of my closest former co-workers (a few years younger than me) died in her sleep; complications due to alcoholism. I also recently lost a past mentor to cancer.
You will underestimate how many dead people you will “know” after #25YearsInTech.
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7 May 2022
I once used the Duke Nukem level builder (1999) to recreate our building, complete with the security gate, carded access doors, our cube farm, the control center, and even a "dripping water sprite" for my co-worker whose cube was underneath a leaky pipe. #25YearsInTech
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4 May 2022
I interned at We-Energies in Milwaukee from May of 1997 until I graduated from UW-Whitewater in 1998.
As an intern, I made $14.60/hour. In 1997.
If you’re still not paying your interns in 2022, you *should* feel bad. Like, really bad. #25YearsInTech
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4 May 2022
So this month marks #25YearsInTech for me. I thought I’d take the time to post some thoughts, reflections and lessons learned over that time. I’m hoping it’ll give some of the newer folks a bit of insight and maybe help them as well.
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1) Show up and don’t sit in the back.
2) Learn the Art of calling out the BS when and where appropriate.
3) Believe you belong here.
4) Chose your battles wisely.
#25YearsInTech x.com/vmwarehorizon/status/1…
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15 Nov 2018
Funnily enough it was 25 years ago that I started towards a career in tech. I was originally inspired by my then-boyfriend Andy M, a games programmer. I thought to myself, "I could do that!"
So @SalFreudenberg, what or who impacted or inspired your career in tech?
#25YearsInTech
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12 Oct 2018
Always evolving, we continue to explore unique ways to enhance efforts to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities in the workplace #UpwardTogether #TopCos #GHC18 #25YearsInTech
thght.works/2RL4ydM
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12 Oct 2018
#PrideMoment @ThoughtWorks shining in #TimesSquare. #25YearsinTech Come and explore our journey thoughtworks.com/25years
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10 Oct 2018
I was inspired by my first agile PM, @kaizen_fer. She showed me how we can be game changers by building great software, helping each other grow and advocate for the use of tech to make people's lives better. Thanks, sensei! #25YearsInTech
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9 Oct 2018
I'm not a developer, can't write a line of code, but I admit I was intimidated by tech. Rather than run away, I jumped in head first @thoughtworks to surround myself in the latest thinking on #tech! #25YearsInTech
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9 Oct 2018
On this #TechThoughtsTuesday we're asking followers to share an event or person that inspired their career in tech? Use hashtag #25YearsInTech when responding. And feel free to ask a friend the same question. thght.works/2EbozYl
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