Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers

Re:Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up i... by ones_and_zeros on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:49PM (#11825931)

I spend a lot of my time and personal money to encourage high school students to pursue a field in STEM (specifically robotics), however, lately I've been having trouble convincing myself to continue due to the long term prospects of a career in STEM. As a professional software engineer at a well known software company, I can only see it as a dead end job with low status and a small shelf life due to age discrimination.

I'd be interested to hear from others who are interested in inclusion how they feel about potentially painting too rosey of a picture.

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Re:Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up i... by hpagey on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:29PM (#11826235)

I share your feeling. I am actively seeking of moving away from the tech field. I am still trying to figure out how to do that (maybe PT MBA will help not sure). My wife who is a software engineer will also exit the tech field in few years, so will my sister.

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Re:Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up i... by tomsaffell on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:55PM (#11825985)

Interesting and worrying. Could you give more details on the "low status" and the "small shelf life"? Especially as it relates to gender (if indeed it does - forgive my ignorance).

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Re:Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up i... by Retric on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:54PM (#11825972)

It's a solid starting off point for a range of other roles. Basically the Upwind section of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

I find a lot of professionals used to be programmers.

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Re:Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up i... by bazqux2 on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:53PM (#11825958)

I'm in the same boat. I switched to data science / ml.

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