Elaine's spent thirty-plus years doing a little bit of everything — and writing down exactly what she learned along the way, so you don't have to learn it the hard way too.
Elaine got her start in engineering the way a lot of good stories start: by complaining loudly enough about broken equipment that someone finally handed her a soldering iron and said, "fine, you fix it." She spent years as one of the first women on the technical side of Silicon Valley, breadboarding circuits before anyone was sure the chips would even work.
These days she's a tax accountant who's heard every excuse for a missing receipt, a genealogist who's traced her own family back further than she probably should have, a baseball card collector building a collection for the next generation, and — since a certain year stuck everybody at home — a fully committed Minecraft builder with a town, a patchwork house, and friends on three continents.
She's also started over more than once, on her own terms, and figures if she survived it, the least she can do is write down how.
"Don't assume something is a write-off. Let your tax professional tell you."Elaine, on her favorite subject
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