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Discussion on: Becoming a female software engineer (who studied Geography)

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Angelika Kinas

Yes! Gender is irrelevant. But that's the point! If it is irrelevant why are so less women with me in the team?

I don't think it is sad that a Junior Programmer and a developer with 15 years of experience can call themselves engineers. Why is that sad? Everyone has to start somewhere.
If someone wants to stress that they have more experience they can call themselves Senior or Stack or anything.

I think it really helps to call yourself what you want to become. If you cannot see yourself as an engineer how will you be able to reach there?

And speaking of names. Calling someone a junior might already affect of how they see themselves, their quality of work and their opinion. At least it was like this for me.

I feel very happy to hear the story of your grandfather. He is a doer! He did not care about how anyone would call him :)

And I completely agree, if you invest enough time and hard work, you can do anything :)

Let's do that!!