Wednesday 16 August 2017

How a laid-off woman in her 50s learned to code and launched a whole new career

by Julie Bort, Business Insider

Gillian Reynolds-Titko’s 20-year-long, high-paying career as a research physicist for DuPont ended when she got caught in one of DuPont’s big layoffs in early 2016. She spent about a year looking at options in her existing career and thought, “meh.” So she decided to become a programmer. In May, after graduating from a intensive coding boot camp, she landed a job as an IT business analyst at JPMorgan Chase.

http://www.businessinsider.com/laid-off-woman-in-her-50s-learned-to-code-landed-a-new-career-2017-8

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from Educational Technology http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/?p=30691

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