Oracle BrandVoice: Here’s A Career Path For You: Software Developer To Horse Massage Therapist To App Entrepreneur

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Gemma Wood left her lucrative career as a Silicon Valley software developer to focus on her true love: horses. Wood had built software for companies such as Oracle, Accenture, Symantec, and British Petroleum, but as midlife drew near, it was time to make a change. At first, she worked as a horse massage therapist, but she couldn’t make ends meet in the San Francisco Bay Area. More than 400 practitioners from 15 countries use Cavanti software to record diagnoses and treatments, and to generate reports and invoices for clients. Without Oracle APEX, Cavanti wouldnt exist because the project would have been time- and cost-prohibitive, Wood says, since she would have had to learn a language like Java or PHP, or hire developers to build it.

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