After studying Geography at University, Janet’s first job was as a hyphenation programmer in the printing industry. She left to go travelling after a year, but was conscious that she needed to start a career and started to search graduate recruitment schemes for well known companies, and Digital (or DEC) happened to be one of them.
She was interviewed whilst still travelling around New Zealand and started her first day at DEC on Oxford Street in London the day she returned on a flight back from the USA. Janet started working in Software Services in pre-sales, then after training was moved to a technical team supporting Barclays Bank handling floppy disks and RLL2 machines. Eventually Janet worked her way up to an account consultant and worked for DEC in Europe and the UK.
Janet left DEC just before it was acquired from Compaq by Hewlett Packard. She joined an offshoot of Digital that provided Tech and IT training called Global Knowledge as a business project manager and then moved on to a company providing tech apprenticeships before retiring.