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# An Auto Engineer Returns to Work After 24 Years Raising Children
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/episodes/auto-engineer-returns-work-24-years-raising-children/
- Published: 2016-05-05T14:06:54.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-25T22:11:03.000Z
- Author: Jer Staes
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12, #sourcewallstreetjournal

Stepping out of the workforce for two decades is enough to kill any career in technology or engineering. After spending 24 years out raising her four children and teaching at a home-schooling co-op, 54-year-old Wendy MacLennan scaled a Mount Everest-like learning curve to make a comeback as an automotive engineer.