9 HEATHER DUNLOP-JONES
IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO Public Sector, IBM UK Limited
So why did I decide to work in IT? Well, it was a pretty pragmatic decision. At the time I graduated, there were thousands of unemployed graduates, and alongside the heady idea of wanting to go wherever my intellectual curiosity took me, future financial security was definitely something to think about. IT appealed because there seemed to be all sorts of people working in the industry – creative brains as well as technical wizards – and it looked like an industry that was always going to be in demand, at least as far as I could foresee. So it ticked all the ...
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