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UX Hustle Club : Meeting #1 Reflection
Collected and selected for our new-to-UX perspectives, 14 budding designers gathered in an Atlanta home. When it was my turn to share a brief snapshot of what brought me there, I was surprised to find how deep I needed to go to fully explain the importance of this group to me.
Both of my parents are strong, competent adults, and I see my mother especially as a person of resolve and persistence. She had been a captain in the Air Force when she had me, and she worked while my sister and I were in grade school. She kept us in sports and in music, sometimes against our will, and she was one of the big motivators for me to get good grades until my own sense of competition kicked in.
My parents also never, not once, implied that I needed to get married at any time. There was no expectation and there were no hints or pressure that I felt from them.
I blame my external upbringing, then, for this idea I adopted by the end of college: Grow Up, Get Married, Be A Mom, The End. My first boyfriend liked the sound of this. My second boyfriend-now husband seemed to like the sound…
