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Underserved

Ep. 022, Catching the coding bug

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Our guest Sara Morgan explains how a sick day led to a love of coding and how questions like, "Would you rather plan a party or take a doorknob apart?" can help point you towards a career. Sara also talks about how your network enables more industry portability than your expertise can, and how important attitude and perspective can be in shaping your future. We also talk about applying technology toward kids' sports and fishing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Under Serv, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.

0:12.8

I'm your host Andrew Jelina.

0:14.8

I am here this afternoon with Sarah Morgan,

0:17.7

director of ITPMO infrastructure

0:20.6

at Frasenius Medical Care North America.

0:23.6

Sarah, welcome to the show.

0:25.2

Thank you.

0:26.2

So a question that I often ask folks right out of the gate

0:28.8

is, what got you excited about technology

0:31.0

or what keeps you excited about it? Well, it's kind of funny because in high school there was a single

0:37.7

programming class I don't want to date myself but it was a long time ago and

0:41.5

Pascal or basic.

0:44.0

I don't even remember it.

0:45.0

It was something very fundamental and I had homework in my computer programming class

0:51.0

and it wasn't that I was actually interacting with a

0:53.5

terminal or anything it was a logic assignment and I got sick and I had a sick day and I

0:58.3

had a fever and I'm in bed really sick and I couldn't stop working on the computer logic problem and I had the

1:05.4

pad and the pencil and I'm trying to figure this thing out and I'm realizing I'm sick as a

1:09.7

dog and I'm still trying to figure this thing out.

1:12.6

So that was clue number one.

1:14.7

And then clue number two, we had a really good guidance counselor

1:17.6

office in the high school and they administered tests

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