The early 80’s were a great time to be a kid with computer knowledge, as many small businesses were getting computerized, which created a demand for those skills. I got my first IT job at an accounting firm in 1981 at the age of 16 by virtue of owning a home computer for two years and taking COBOL and RPG programming classes in high school on a system 38. Never looked back. On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 6:46 PM William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Wow! $20 an hour in 1982? I was making 15.50 and I thought it was a king's ransom.
Bill S.
-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org] On Behalf Of Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2021 2:29 PM To: vcf-midatlantic Cc: Christian Liendo Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] Nice story about getting into computers in the 80s
https://madned.substack.com/p/a-teenagers-guide-to-avoiding-actual
I thought this was a nice story because I got into IT roughly the same way. I was supposed to be a veterinarian not an IT person.
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