Happy 2025, Tech by Choice family! 🎉 While some of us are still searching for the "happy" in Happy New Year, we know we'll fin it together. Starting w/ our 2-part Interview Training Workshop! 📅 Jan 18 & 20 💪 Level up together 🎯 Build confidence RSVP Today www.eventbrite.com/e/interview-...

🎄 As 2024 comes to an end, we celebrates another year of making tech accessible & inclusive for all! It's been a challenging year, but we did it together. May your holidays overflow with creativity & new possibilities! #SkyTech #tech #Community

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We just received a donation of $500.00! - $25 covers the cost of a member attending an event - $100 covers an industry expert running a workshop - $1,000 covers an additional 10 hours of content for our Bootcamp 🔗 Donate to support diversity today https://bit.ly/tbc-give

Tech by Choice is a nonprofit focused on helping marginalized communities thrive in tech. Thriving in tech can mean different things. This could be transitioning into a tech role, landing that senior title, or using tech to create your own stream of income.

We would like to welcome @jrewbarrington.bsky.social to The skyline! Happy to see you’ve made it and started connecting with the community! Can SkyTech tap in and say hello and share a few accounts to follow!

SkyTech What brought you to the industry, and more importantly what made you stay?

Using CERN data early 90's, building sites for fun mid-90's, running clubs building for the web late 90's - switched to f/t dev '99. Getting to be around some of the smartest people, building some of the most exciting cutting edge web technology, and constantly learning is what keeps me here.

We're a community model after modeled after the Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party created a 10 point program to highlight its guidelines & ideas on how to be in community. Their 10th point hit's is where we pick up where they left off ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊ 🔗 http://techbychoice.org/

a uni tutor showed me how to make a website with flash while I was attempting (and failed) a music production degree years later frustrated that my design work was being badly translated and ignored by web developers, I learned html and css & more flash mostly out of spite but ended up enjoying it

A question we should all be asking during interviews right now is, "Is your company currently profitable?" And "what's the company's strategy for handling the expected market downturn?" ... And on the flipside, employers should be ready to answer those questions, given our economic climate.

My dad told me I could make a lot of money and the only thing I ever actively showed any interest in / skill with was computers. Thought I'd make video games, but business software paid more and was easier to get jobs for. I stay because it's the only thing I'm qualified to do that pays this well.

Fascinated with how the internet works and all the different types of people and info you come across. Nobody has made me a housewife yet.

Wanted to build games, haven't build a single game. Women in tech community, being able to make things I like, flexibility to work anywhere is the reason I've stayed. Had a lot of reasons to quit too but I love it too much.

Haven't found any other profession that: * Is as lucrative * Allows as much autonomy * Offers the chance to problem solve * Is focused on craft * Lets me work with smart people * Has as low barriers to entry

Brought me to: it was easier to get a paid software engineering internship than an unpaid polisci one Kept me: solving problems, financial stability, career progression

money. stayed for the community and i like solving problems.

To be able to transition lol. Transition is so extremely prohibitively expensive and healthcare in the US, already complete trash to begin with, rarely even covers trans healthcare. Tech was the only option I had left to scrounge up the $100k+ needed for jaw surgery, FFS, BA, and electrolysis. 😭

Literally the money and insurance

SkyTech What brought you to the industry, and more importantly what made you stay?

This is a lot of work because FB Business Manager is a zoo.

It’s Friday and have a reason to celebrate! NBC featured the work we’re doing to bringing Underestimated devs, designers, PMs, and more to BlueSky to build tools and community there. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/black-tech-twitter-trans-users-marginalized-groups-flock-bluesky-rcna82442

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Thank you everyone who stopped the event's we held within the last two weeks! We held: - Tech Leadership Support group - Coworking Session in Slack - Part 2 of our part AI workship Can't wait to see yall in the next one!

SkyTech please welcome one of our community memebers @mintii.bsky.social 🥳

SkyTech please welcome one of our community memebers @mintii.bsky.social 🥳

Document. Document. Document. ☀️ Document your day: Crate todo's 💻 Document your code: Leave comments & create documents 🎨 Document your designs: Leave notes & comments in Figma 🌱 Document your growth: Create a brag sheet & work diary Future you will be happy about it.

Today is the first day #AANHPIMonth We're celebrating & uplifting AANHPI voices all year long because our community knows every month is AANHPI month! Let's continue to learn about each out so we can show up & push for meaningful change together.

With this last wave of layoffs, we’re looking to support our community in a real way. To help us help you, reply to this to let us know 💼 Job title you’re looking for 📈 years of experience 📝Top 5 Skills 📍in office (+ Location) / remote hybrid / 🎯 1 must-have for your next role

I was thinking about building a custom feed algorithm. Someone's already launched one though 😅

So what we building for bluesky?

Is there any dev that would like to work with me on something Bluesky and media? I have an idea framework but I just wanna talk about it with someone other than ChatGPT.

With this last wave of layoffs, we’re looking to support our community in a real way. To help us help you, reply to this to let us know 💼 Job title you’re looking for 📈 years of experience 📝Top 5 Skills 📍in office (+ Location) / remote hybrid / 🎯 1 must-have for your next role

🤯 In just 24 hrs, we've received 186+ applications for our Paid Open Source program! We're fundraiser to expand to support the needs of the community on Gitcoin to leverage Quadratic Funding 🔗 Contribute now: tbcevents.org/3LA2mU9 🔗 Blog: tbcevents.org/40MJWUL 🧵 Details ⬇️

Companies can't provide the level of safety that we're looking for. Only communities can do this. Don't be fooled by some companies "we're a family" motto. The bottom line will always be the motivation. Find your people.

We’ve hit 100+ applications and 100 sky followers 💯💯💯

👀 So has SkyTech found out we’re looking to PAY open source contributors & mentors? Well if you didn’t know now you do so go ahead and: 🔗 read more https://tbcevents.org/3AA7q4F 🔗 apply to be a contributor https://tbcevents.org/3Lf6B7F 🔗 apply to be a mentor https://tbcevents.org/mentor-application

Big shoutout to @aliafonzy.bsky.social for getting us here! This app wouldn't be what it is without you ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊

Are you someone underestimated looking to enter, stay, & thive in tech? Join us over here! We offer: 🗄 Job placement 🖥 Paid open source opportunity 🧠 Mental health & wellness spaces 💰 Financial literacy materials 👥 Mentorship 🔍 Skill building workshops 🔗 https://tbcevents.org/tbc-membership

We're a community model after modeled after the Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party created a 10 point program to highlight its guidelines & ideas on how to be in community. Their 10th point hit's is where we pick up where they left off ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊ 🔗 http://techbychoice.org/