'Age is not a barrier': Tech designer, 91, lands her dream job in Silicon Valley
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While growing up during the Great Depression, Barbara Beskind was an inventor by necessity who hoped to become one professionally.
Eight decades later, the 91-year-old has finally realized her dream at a top design firm in Silicon Valley.
"As a 10-year-old I wanted to be an inventor,'' Beskind told Jenna Bush Hager on TODAY Friday. "I've arrived. But it took me about 80 years."
Beskind was 10 years old during the Great Depression, when ingenuity was a life requirement.
"I wanted to make a hobby horse, and I made it out of old tires,'' she said. "I learned a lot about gravity because I fell off so many times."
Her initial dreams of becoming an inventor were dashed when her high school guidance counselor told her that engineering schools don't accept females. Instead, she served in the U.S. Army and as an occupational therapist while also writing books and learning to paint. Two years ago, she read about the Silicon Valley design firm IDEO and decided to apply for a job at the firm, which is famous for designing the first mouse for Apple and dozens of other well-known devices.
And sexism 
when I'm 90 I will find the man of my dreams and we will have many babies 
