https://thefarahstack.com/tags/career/Recent content in Career on The Farah StackHugoen-usSun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thefarahstack.com/posts/the-13-year-comeback/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thefarahstack.com/posts/the-13-year-comeback/<p><img src="https://thefarahstack.com/images/posts/thirteen-year-comeback.jpg" alt="A desk at golden hour with old textbooks, a new notebook and a laptop"></p> <p>I have a CS degree. Then I stayed home, and the few years I&rsquo;d planned turned into thirteen.</p> <p>When I decided to come back, someone told me plainly: no one starts working 13 years after graduating.</p> <p>I believed them for a while. That&rsquo;s the part I want to talk about.</p> <h2 id="what-i-had-to-relearn">What I had to relearn</h2> <p>Almost everything with a version number. The tools, the languages people actually used, the way teams shipped. Thirteen years is a long time in this industry. I re-taught myself from scratch, one evening at a time, and somewhere along the way I also finished a second major, in Accounting, before choosing CS again.</p>