Future psychologist who ended up taking a developer summer job in 1989 and never looked back. Addicted to new languages and always looking to learn. New fashionable stack is currently Elixir/Elm.
My very first programming job happened almost by accident. I was studying psychology and looking for a summer job. I stopped by the college summer jobs board and saw an offer where they were looking for a third year student. That was back in 1989.
I decided to apply as I always did some personal programming projects at home. Just for fun, I decided to do a small demo in Turbo Pascal.
I was actually one of the only two students to apply and because of that small demo I ended up being hired. I really had no academic knowledge or experience...so I learned by myself how to code and modify their accounting system. I ended up working there for 5 years then moved on to start my own consulting firm.
You know what the best bit of all this is? After some 20 years they managed to track me again...and that good old DOS program was still running the production management part of the business using less than 4 MO of RAM.
A year later and here I am working again for that same company who gave me my first job with a new technology stack I chose and enjoy.
Talk about lucky?
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My very first programming job happened almost by accident. I was studying psychology and looking for a summer job. I stopped by the college summer jobs board and saw an offer where they were looking for a third year student. That was back in 1989.
I decided to apply as I always did some personal programming projects at home. Just for fun, I decided to do a small demo in Turbo Pascal.
I was actually one of the only two students to apply and because of that small demo I ended up being hired. I really had no academic knowledge or experience...so I learned by myself how to code and modify their accounting system. I ended up working there for 5 years then moved on to start my own consulting firm.
You know what the best bit of all this is? After some 20 years they managed to track me again...and that good old DOS program was still running the production management part of the business using less than 4 MO of RAM.
A year later and here I am working again for that same company who gave me my first job with a new technology stack I chose and enjoy.
Talk about lucky?