Julie Pagano

This one snuck up on me.

Another year has passed.

Another year has passed.

Just like last year, I don't have it in me to write a "year in review" post for 2022.

While writing my 2022 job search retrospective, I realized my takeaway about hiring into staff/principal levels was getting too long and covered topics outside of my job search.

I finished up my job search, so it's time for the last step of my process.

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This is the introductory post for an ongoing series about my approach to searching for a software engineering job.

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I quit my job in April and am taking significant time off before looking for work again.

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I do not have it in me to write a "year in review" of 2021.

I just completed the most interesting and intensive job search of my career.

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Cate Huston came up with the awesome idea to list things she's leaving behind in 2018.

This talk was originally given at AlterConf Portland in October 2016.

2015 is coming to a close, so it is time to continue my habit of reviewing the year. 2015 has been a terrible, awful, no-good year for me, but writing about it helps.

One of my talents is coming up with increasingly horrifying metaphors for the tech industry.

In my job search retrospective, I mentioned that one of the companies I interviewed with earlier this year owed me $700.

I recently searched for a new job.

I am deeply frustrated right now.

It's been a few months, but the firebee dispatches are back in business!

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This post was originally published anonymously in Model View Culture's "2014 in Review" issue on December 5th, 2014.

Time for one more conference recap.

Earlier this week, I received an email about an upcoming event from an organization that focuses on queer women in the tech community.

I am not really a New Year's Resolution sort of person. resolution -- A firm decision to do or not to do something.

It's not particularly uplifting, but I thought it was useful to review my year.

I managed to get another dispatch out in a row!

Last week, I took on the grueling task of transcribing the male allies panel from Grace Hopper Celebration 2014.

It's been a few weeks, but I'm back.

Content notice: violence, violence against women, mass shooting Today is the 25th anniversary of the mass shooting in Montreal often referred to as the École Polytechnique Massacre.

I have been thinking a lot lately about making content in the tech community more accessible.

Our busy period at work is finally over.

Now that I quit the tech community, I want to try more writing on non-tech topics.

Everyone liked the animal rescue pictures so much last time, that I decided to do it again.

I made it to a dozen dispatches!

I actually like sending these out on Sunday better than Friday, so I may just move days instead of continuing to call this late.

Yet another week of a late dispatch with the firebees.

Check out these pictures of some adorable cats at the animal shelter where I volunteer.

We're back to our regularly scheduled program this week, but still late because things are still busy at work.

Content notice: assault, sexual assault, harassment, threats, suggestions of suicide I recommend starting at the beginning of this series for context.

In my last post, I talked briefly about how healing isn't quite as simple as people might think.