Re: [SAGE] Computer Sciences degrees in IT

[Richard Chycoski <rskiadmin@chycoski.com>]

At about 13 or 14 I had decided that I wanted to be a Systems Analyst. 
There weren't any sysadmins back then, and my concept of what a Systems 
Analyst did was more-or-less what a sysadmin does.

And that was back when my only contact with computers was at the open 
house of a nearby university - the same university that I ended up 
working at for 23 years...

So yes, there are people who really do choose this life early on.
Deluded fools that we are! (:-)

- Richard


Stephen Potter wrote:
> 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