I was delighted to be asked, what seems like ages ago, to submit to Develop Denver (https://developdenver.org/). I had gotten most of the way through the process to gain an internship, and had hit a snag on the housing. I was asked to make a GoFundMe (which I disliked - I always want to give back in kind!) , and made it, more than my goal - partly thanks to the community of developers that is out there on social media. The internship fell through - my background was part of the issue. But that still left the invitation to submit that had come in during this - I would have been back in the area literally the day of the event. I couldn't talk on what I'd experienced, but I could talk about what I'd learned about hiring and myself during these three months. Sounds easy? Not at all - as you know, the tech space shifts rapidly, and the hiring landscape moves slowly. Many of the answers in hiring have already been formulated, and the influx of new people, with differ...
The short-post ramblings of a 'sandwich generation' person who is trying to make a second career around her child and parent (and is financially dependent on them). The posts will be short: simply due to time constraints.