To: Boot Zero Boot Zero wrote:
All,Anyone who is lurking in this forum has been immersed in technology for at least the last twenty years. Many have gone on to jobs in technology.I started with A2 BBSing in 1983, and now I build content management systems of streamed content for large corporations. User login, registration, admin, chat, content management. Back then it was a message board, now its a blog. Funny how 26 years later, it's still the same shit.I bet many of us have landed in interesting positions in technology.Eight bit computing is a nice escape from modern computing. So I ask readers of c.s.apple2 -- what do you do in the real life? What do you do for a living?-BZ
I have been fortunate to have worked @ Fortune 500 companies since I graduated High School in 1979. First 6 years @ GE in a factory making nasty stuff which will come back to haunt me someday. Next 10 years @ Sears in IT (MF computer operator, Early PC technology, TR Networking) and the last 13 yrs working for HAL ;) - (Internal IT - Networking(TR, ETH and ATM), Servers(RS6K and Intel), Distributed file systems, VoIP and Source Code Management systems)
Funny thing is, I can remember going to the public library when I was in grade 5 or so (1970?), looking at some books on careers and picking out an IBM SE as one job that I thought I might like (not knowing a computer from a grapefruit at that point).
While I took the long way around, I ended up there due in large part to my getting completely hooked on the Apple II, going back to 6 years of night school and upgrading my skills.
While I have jumped on other new technologies as they came along ... BeBox ... first (palm) pilot ... XO and other fun embedded stuff but nothing will take the place of that 6502 based juggernaut I first met in 1981...