Flavia Tumusiime talks dumping media for IT

She decided to seek out tech and innovation, where she would apply all the skills she attained in media.

“I have decided to change my industry…I have been in media for 21 long years and there wasn’t anything else left to do. There wasn’t any ceiling to hit; I wasn’t going to be a manager of a radio station or build a TV from scratch…the next opportunity for me was tech,” Flavia said.

On this new journey, she says, she’s going all in as a full-time developer.

Over the past year, she juggled housework with online training in coding, a task, she says was exhausting but rewarding.

“I would code through the night (after the twins went to sleep) and I would do about four hours of sleeping in the morning and repeat the cycle until I graduated,” she said.

Flavia described her journey as a “necessary career change,” and one she decided to fully immerse herself into.

“I did not want to just be a tech consultant for vibes. I actually needed to know the content and to understand exactly what I was talking about. Being a backend developer and front-end developer was important to me.”

Flavia quit Capital FM in August 2022, where she had presented the AM to PM show for 16 years. She, however, retained the weekly Desert Island Disks show.

In May last year, she and her husband Andrew Kabuura welcomed their twins, forcing her to sit at home to care for them and herself.

Her decision to return to work, she said, was after realizing how much she missed trying out her talents.

She says she had a talk with her husband about her desire to do more than just look after the children and her need to “advance the itch to do something.”