[purpleostrich]

Yes. My obsession with computers, which did not start until after I met some super geeks after college, has COST me tens of thousands of dollars, more if you count rent for my lab and patents.

It has cost me thousands of hours of time when I could've been reading literature, networking, cooking, going to med school, or a hundred other things.

It has been worth every fucking penny and minute and the best joy and highlights of my life have been when I learned about a new idea or created a new algorithm.

We exist. There just aren't that many of us and we don't glamour blog.

[delhanty]

Thank you for reply.

>There just aren't that many of us

That was my point really - female geeks/nerds existed back in the day before tech was cool.

It's just the natural level of interest (NOT ability) seemed to be more like 10% rather than 50%.

[purpleostrich]

It's hard to say. I'd say any natural interest I had in science was ignored or actively suppressed by my family. I think it's no accident that I did not embrace computers until after I was a financially independent adult.

If my family had encouraged me and others like me earlier, the numbers of us surely would've been larger.