Question and Answer Time

Today I am going to start answering questions that have been submitted.  The first one submitted was:

"If you were not working in Information Services what type of job would you have?"

Realistically I think I would probably be an accountant.  Initially in junior high and high school I wanted to be an accountant.  Computers were just starting to be introduced and our school had 3 IBM's and a dozen Apple II's.  We were required to take a 9 week computer class, of which the teacher mostly talked about computers and we barely got any hands on time.

During high school, math came fairly easy to me and I figured that would be an easy way for me to make a decent wage and give me whatever I wanted in life.  When I went to college, that was still my plan...Go to college, get a business degree, become a CPA.  Once I got to college, things changed, and I thought I would like to become an FBI agent.  That was a short lived dream as I determined there were quite a few things working to my disadvantage.

After dropping out of college after 3 semesters and meeting my wife, I went into working retail.  While I didn't mind the work, I didn't feel that I was suited to do this for the rest of my life.  I ended up bouncing from random job to random job for a few years.  After working at a dead end factory job for over a year and finding out that Tara was pregnant with our first child, I was determined to get a college degree and make sure that my family had a better life than what Tara and I had been experiencing.

At first I thought about getting my degree and becoming an accountant.  But by this time, I had been dabbling in computers off and on, I decided that getting a degree in Information Services would be a safe bet in life.  Computers were becoming more and more prevalent in all aspects of life and the workplace.

So, long story short, I think I would be an accountant if I wasn't in Information Services.

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