7th Grade, South Dakota, 1983. I was in the pilot "Gifted and Talented" class. The teacher made it a point to come to my house and suggest to my parents that they buy a personal computer for me based on what she saw in my interactions with the TRS-80's at school.
Next day, my mom went out and bought a VIC-20 for me to work on. I probably owe that teacher a lot by now. Oddly enough, I went to college planning on a mechanical engineering degree because I didn't figure computer science majors made as much money. I had to take some fortran classes for the ME degree and decided that really was where my passion was. On May 1, 2008, at 7:14 AM, G Money wrote: > I spun this off into a new thread because it got me > thinking........why did > everyone here get into programming? Was it by choice? Did it just > happen > that way? Did you major in CS in college? Was it to make money? > > For me personally, I wanted a job that had 3 primary characteristics: > 1) Made good money > 2) Would be in demand for the foreseeable future and > 3) Would allow me to work with minimal contact with other people > > I'm not a misanthrope, but I do really enjoy just shrinking into my > own > world sometimes and pounding out code without having to interact > with a > bunch of people to get stuff done. > > So.......how did everyone else get into this business? > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Adam Churvis < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Only one correction: David is the one who is off the charts. >> >> Respectfully, >> >> Adam Phillip Churvis >> President >> Productivity Enhancement >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:09 PM >>> To: CF-Community >>> Subject: churvii: a study in brainiacs >>> >>> so, david is highly intelligent, adam, well, you are off the >>> charts... >>> >>> id like to know... how is your office setup? >>> >>> i see a bunch of churvii in one room, laughing at each other >>> coding, responding to lists, laughing at each others posts, etc... >>> >>> am i way off? >>> >>> -- >>> 'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in >>> thirty >>> seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner' >>> >>> robert deniro - heat (1995) >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259472 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
