There are many people who’ve taken non-traditional paths in their careers, and over the years different disciplines have benefitted from their unique perspectives and skillsets. It’s not only here where one finds them. Our “Community” page links to other websites and sources that have covered non-traditional career paths, focusing on computer science and related disciplines.

 

Science News – Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible

Published: February 2022

“Beyond Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and a handful of other names that we remember were hundreds of thousands of men and women who contributed to Apollo over a decade. Among them: the Navajo women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer and the women employees of Raytheon who wove the computer’s core memory.”

 

ACM – How Music and Programming Led Me to Build Digital Microworlds

Published: September 2021

“Alongside my early love of programming was a love of music, and inevitably these two worlds collided”

 

The Irish Times – ‘My background could not have been further from IT’

Published: September 2021

“My background could not have been further from IT, having trained in college as a theatre actor and working mostly retail and sales jobs for the majority of my professional life.”

 

Sigma Pi Sigma – Spotlight on Hidden Physicists

Published: Since 2014

“Hidden Physicists” are people with a physics background, but without a typical physics job. Nearly 90% of all physicists are hidden physicists.”

 

Recoding Gender – Women’s Changing Participation in Computing

Published: 2012

The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.