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in Software Engineering and a minor in Germanic Studies. I graduated from the honors program with a B.Sc. I transferred to Computer Science and it was the best decision I made in college. People seemed to be struggling with a task I found to be second-nature. I would always be done within five minutes and then I’d use my remaining time to help out my classmates.

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It was very simple: we were given code snippets in our labs and we had to debug them to figure out where the errors were. I didn’t really like my courses-I absolutely hated chemistry and the only course I actually liked was a programming-related course. In my first year of college I was in the Engineering program at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. I was quite young at the time and gazing at the massive size of those programming books I remember thinking, “I don’t want to have to read these.” So I didn’t really think much about programming as a career until I was in college.Įven though I had all this experience and was doing a good job and potentially amazing things I never really felt that way until submitting projects to Udacity.”

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We had these monolithic books that listed every line of a program we typed one in and it displayed a series of color pictures on our television.

The earliest memory I have related to programming is sitting down with my dad back in the 80s and writing out some programs in BASIC on our Tandy Colour computer. Read on to find out exactly how she did it. Cindy is also one of the founding member of Selective’s Women's Agency Leadership Initiative and Women at Work initiatives and is an advocate for the advancement of women in insurance.Today’s post was written by Cheryl Court, a Udacity Front-End Nanodegree student who gained the confidence to apply for and land a job at a startup called Localize. Heismeyer joined the company in 1985 and has held a number of positions within the Information Technology, Market Research and Competitive Intelligence, Corporate Communications and Corporate Marketing departments during her tenure. Cindy leads a dynamic marketing team that develops and executes marketing strategies, and incorporates new and innovative marketing and communication programs for agents and consumers by utilizing multiple channels and solutions.

About the AuthorĬindy Heismeyer, Vice President and Director of Marketing, is responsible for driving Selective’s marketing, advertising and branding efforts. It carries a simple, yet impactful, message that has made a huge difference in my career and life when I remember to follow it: “Today, I choose joy.” May you own your choices…and may all of them bring you joy. I’m forever grateful for the little nudge I needed to make that huge, but wonderful, choice in my life.Īs one of the many reminders of my mom – I have a picture that had hung on her wall, which now hangs on mine. So, I chose to take her advice and take the leap. I’ll never forget her response – “Sometimes the ‘right’ time never comes…”. I had a lot going on in my life then – from a very busy work schedule, to helping her during her journey with her stage 4 cancer, and more. In her usual wise and comfortable way, she asked me what I was waiting for, and I told her I was waiting for the “right” time. Just last fall, I was talking to my mother about my dream of owning a beach house one day. But, sometimes I still need a little prodding to remember to be bold enough to make a choice. There have been times when I chose to accept certain roles and challenges, and times when I chose to not pursue them because they weren’t right for me at that time or place. I kept hearing the phrase from the 1970’s show with David Carradine: “Choose wisely, grasshopper.” I wasn’t at all sure that I was choosing wisely, but at least I was the one choosing.įast forward – it was absolutely the right choice to make, as I loved my next role! I’ve tried to remember the concept of choice throughout my career and my life. So, I had to make a difficult choice…keep going on a path someone else had set for me, or correct course and take a chance. I didn’t look forward to going in to the office (when going in to an office was still a thing!), and my job felt like work…not a passion, but a chore.

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