While programming is to a degree a collaborative effort, the act of sitting down is generally a solitary one (unless you happen to be in the 1% of companies tha

While programming is to a degree a collaborative effort, the act of sitting down is generally a solitary one (unless you happen to be in the 1% of companies that does pair programming extensively). I feel that she could have a place in programming, but there's the problem of finding the right company culture where collaboration is explicitly a bigger focus that would maybe allow somebody like her to thrive. (That's before even considering issues like a spotty resume and age-ism). Even so, there's a significant difference between programming or a job in sales or PR or management or etc., anything where your core job is dealing with people.