How One Parent Rebuilt a Tech Career After a Decade Away

The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry · Jul 3, 2026 · 7m · transcript

Episode 90 of The Comeback Career Podcast follows the story of Anita, a former software engineer who stepped away from tech for eleven years to raise her children and care for aging parents. When she decided to return, she faced a rapidly changed landscape: cloud computing, AI-assisted development, and modern collaboration tools she had never used. Instead of trying to catch up on every skill, Anita targeted one fast-growing niche—Salesforce administration—and used a nonprofit Salesforce training program designed for career returners. Within eight months of starting the program, she landed a…