By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee)  Looking
back 21 years ago I never would have fathomed I would have
become a femgineer. At the age of eight, I had decided I was
going to be a lawyer, writer, and professor, because I loved to
read, write, and speak. I spent the next 10 years of my life
working toward that goal. In elementary and middle school, I
wrote short stories. In high school, I joined the debate team,
and when it was time for college. I chose Duke because it has a
really great law school.  So where did I get off course and
decide to become an engineer, pursuing two majors (Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science) — then decide to move to
California, work in the tech industry, then join a startup, and
then start my own company?  Well the truth is I was NEVER
encouraged by anyone to become a lawyer. In fact, as I’ve
pointed out in this blog a number of times most of the men in my
family are engineers. And when I told most people I wanted to be
a lawyer people were actually shocked t