{"id":204,"date":"2003-10-28T08:44:16","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/10\/28\/la-techie-accidental\/"},"modified":"2003-10-28T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T12:44:16","slug":"la-techie-accidental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/10\/28\/la-techie-accidental\/","title":{"rendered":"La Techie accidental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a216'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#x2019;t know, but I would lay pretty substantial odds that half or more of today&#x2019;s techie women got there the same way I did. No teenage hackfests, no college CS major, no certifications, no 80-hour coding death marches. Just something needing doing, and a woman willing to cuss the computer until she figures out how to make it do what she wants.<\/p>\n<p>Some accidental techies are indeed male; I know one or two. I do wonder about the distribution, though. The accidental techies I know typically came from pink-collar occupations, and how many men does one find in those?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder about some other things, too. Do accidental techies get paid what their jobs are worth? (I have no cause for complaint there, I am glad to say.) How many of them feel as much an impostor as I do? What do the intentional techies think of them? Do they ever learn all the in-jokes? Or the acronyms? Would they advise others to sneak in the back door the way they did? Is it even possible to plan to do that, or does it always &#x201C;just happen?&#x201D;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.misbehaving.net\/dorothea.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothea<\/a> se explica <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misbehaving.net\/2003\/10\/the_accidental_.html\" target=\"_blank\">con m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#x2019;t know, but I would lay pretty substantial odds that half or more of today&#x2019;s techie women got there the same way I did. No teenage hackfests, no college CS major, no certifications, no 80-hour coding death marches. Just something needing doing, and a woman willing to cuss the computer until she figures out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ionstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}