Re: [SAGE] Computer Sciences degrees in IT

[Stephen Potter <spp@unixsa.net>]

Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> How many sysadmins said when they were 12 years old "I'm going to be a 
> systems administrator when I grow up?".

How about 15?  I've loved computers since I was maybe 8 or 10.  I used to spend hours in the local Kmart playing with the TIs and original Commodores.  I got my first computer at 12, tried my hand at programming and decided I didn't like it that much.  Blame it on BASIC.  ;-)  Then I got to start playing with real computers (VAX/VMS, Amdahl/SysV) at age 14-15 at a BSA Explorer post.  We even figured out how to dial in to the systems outside of hours (until someone in authority figured it out and cut us off).  I knew I loved computers, even though I didn't particularly like programming, so decided I wanted to be an SA.

Now, some people here may say that I'm difficult to work with, but very few will say I'm any more unbalanced then most.  ;-)

-spp