This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Valeria
I got my first personal computer when I was a teenager and the first thing I did was breaking it. I needed to figure out how this machine worked. Some say it's no longer magic once you know how the trick is done, but for me it had the opposite effect: the more I learned about computers the more mesmerised I was.
First HTML page I wrote looked nothing like the pages I can create today, but it made me fall in love with this craft. It felt like a door to another world - a world where everything makes sense and serves a purpose; a world where any suffering is temporary and always has a fix; a world that can only get better with time - my dream world.
I did impossible things out of this love: somehow I managed to be pro-active and move initiatives in work environments where main interview question was if I'm planning to have kids anytime soon. Somehow I sustained myself for years being a freelancer with zero business skills while figuring out motherhood. I have attributed it all to luck. But was it luck, truly?
I don't think so anymore. I was different. So different, that not even I had a label for me, and when we, humans, face unexpected we are forced to evaluate the unexpected and create new behavioural patterns.
I do have reasons to think highly of myself, but that's not the point I want to make. The key to success lies, in my opinion, in diversity: being authentic, having unique upbringing, facing challenges a few faced, taking all this inimitable experience and applying it on a scale.
Today I work in a team of extremely talented and passionate people of at least five different nationalities; third of us identify as women. But diversity for me is not about neat statistical balance of gender and/or nationality - it's about seeing people as individuals and being curious about their point of view.
After a lot of trial and error I found a place where I can be myself and thrive. And I dream that one day these kind of workplaces would become nothing but ordinary. I hope that the next generation of developers would not need to face bigotry, prejudice, imposter syndrome and burnouts while trying to build a career out of something they are really good at.
I vow to stay impartial and fair, to avoid judgement and to support individuals regardless of their gender identity, views, orientation, religion or upbringing.
Because I want my dream world to become our reality one day.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Valeria
Valeria | Sciencx (2023-03-13T18:22:50+00:00) My Dream World. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2023/03/13/my-dream-world/
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