[vcf-midatlantic] Nice story about getting into computers in the 80s

[Dean Notarnicola]

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 at 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.
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> https://madned.substack.com/p/a-teenagers-guide-to-avoiding-actual
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> 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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