My Computer
Blog Prompt – Did you go to college or have vocational training – where and when?
I received my degree in Computer Science back in 1978. A time when computers were just coming to the surface and new horizons were just around the corner. I loved working on my degree and if any of you know about computers from that era, I had to use keypunch cards to write my programs. Instead of instantly knowing if my program worked or not, I would keypunch in each line, one card per line, and wait until the huge room size computer spit out my results. Usually took a few days.
I would go back, pick up my printed out version of my program and look for mistakes. Key punch each line over that had an error and try again. It would take weeks sometimes to write a program for a class. Times have truly changed.
I used my degree for awhile and because of the area I lived in and that I was a woman, there wasn’t jobs to be found that were of good pay. I wish I had stuck with it though or moved to a large city. I can only imagine where I would be today with my career.
But then, I would be married to the wonderful man I am married to today and I wouldn’t have my wonderful child. And I also wouldn’t have my own business and have wonderful digi scrap friends that I have today. I do use my skills to do my own websites and blogs and just about anything I want to do on the computer.
I love my computer.
I did vocational for my computers one year and
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did 2 years of college for Admin Assistant and that’s what I’m doing now
I never went that far back w/computers sounds like fun.
It’s amazing when we look back at how far we have come and see the paths that our lives have taken. Thanks for sharing your story.
I c oncur with everyone. You just don’t know where life will take you and when something unexpected will change your direction.
I remember them, LOL.
I remember having to take a college course in Fortran and having to write flow charts in the ’70s. My major was Education (French) and I didn’t see the purpose then. But, during my teaching career I had to use computers quite a bit (even though the computer language has changed).