---
title: "You Can't Launch a Spaceship if All You Hire Are Astronauts: Other Jobs in
  Technology"
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2017/program/proposals/318
beginning: '2017-10-06T13:30:00.000-07:00'
end: '2017-10-06T13:50:00.000-07:00'
presenters:
- name: Carol Smith
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/301
  gravatar_id: 02e41b70f994656d2a0ff8c8703bd915
---

We talk so much about computer science and programming when we talk about tech that we tend to forget other career opportunities. I'll discuss the possibilities for using your computer science degree in other parts of technology as well as opportunities that are available in tech to people without computer science degrees. Let's make more way for people who aren't interested in programming to join this field and ways to retain people who started in development work and burn out or lose interest.
