Flameproofing your Tech Career: Preventing Burnout with Self Care

As software developers, burnout is a real risk that some consider inevitable. In order to prevent burnout, we can diligently practice self care and self advocacy and recognize that we have wide blind spots around our own needs.

After this talk, you will:

• understand self care, self advocacy, and self soothing
• create boundaries that protect you from burnout
• prioritize actions that stabilize your core self care process
• identify realistic goals to establish flameproof habits

Dana Arroway is a committed, innovative software engineer based in Southeast Texas. She has extensive experience in the tech industry as well as a master's degree in Integrative Health Studies, and is a graduate of the Plan II Honors program at the University of Texas at Austin. She has been an acupuncturist, an entrepreneur, a technical consultant, and now a developer. She builds full stack web applications for clients all over the world and uses her experience and education to support fellow developers everywhere.

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