Forum: RetroDigital BBS

College

From Kevin Nunn@618:200/1 to Mark Hofmann on Sat Mar 12 11:05:18 2022

MARK HOFMANN wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

I used to get yelled at when I was in school at ITT Tech for SSHing into my server at home by the school's IT tech (an older guy). I really pissed him off when I set my SSH port to 443. He couldn't prove otherwise.

Bleh - computers in High School? Never had 'em LOL

I started working professionally in IT at age 18, but felt I had to at least experience a few college classes since my work offered to pay for them.

Same here, I was very lucky that my father was a programmer, he worked
on IBM mainframes and he started his own consulting firm in 1980 doing programming on IBM midrange boxes. I "interned" there for awhile,
learned a lot of on the job programming and never looked back

The two experiences confirmed that college was not for me. I never
looked back and did just fine.

I tried college right out of HS. But being 1982, after a few months I
got a job offer paying $10/hr for system operator, so I jumped at it.

I did go back for some college in my 40s and I enjoyed that experience.
I took the basics and actually enjoyed mathmatics, took a C class since
I never learned C, that was fun. But it was just for that, for fun.

I learned a lot of logic, coding, accounting and business management
by actually doing it (and making mistakes... big ones sometimes).

Kev

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