Don’t Get Distracted (2017)
November 16, 2017 Be sure to check out these Sketchnotes from a 15 minute version of this talk from Codeland by Stephanie Nemeth I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time. Even before I’d walked across the stage for graduation, I accepted an offer for an internship. It paid half again as much as the most I’d ever gotten in the highest paying job up to that point. Not to mention that I’d spent years in college with low paid student jobs or living only on student loans. I’d be joining a contracting company for the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense, or DOD, is the part of the government made up by the military in the United States. The DOD outsources all sorts…
