[AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?

Spanish and French degree then no job you fancied in languages, therefore
into IT? Blimey, absolutely and exactly ditto. 

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> Kath Pelletti
> Sent: 22 February 2005 22:44
> To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?
> 
> 
> Hi Steve - it's been so interesting to read everyone's 
> stories, so here's my 2 cents..
> 
> - I fell into IT after doing an Arts degree in Spanish and 
> French. Language and music graduates were bombarded with 
> offers from all sorts of companies that year (1982) as some 
> research had come out indicating that anyone with an ability 
> in music and language would probably succeed with the logic 
> of computer programming and they were very short of IT graduates.
> 
> They paid for us (I decided to give it a go, not finding a 
> job in languages that I really  wanted) to do a course which 
> took 12 months and then took me on as trainee computer 
> programmer - using Assembler (!) and Cobol. 
> 
> I found that I loved programming and later moved on to 
> another firm using RPGII. Then changed to Analyst and 
> Business Analyst. No experience with personal PC's which were 
> very new back then but at one point I was asked to knock up a 
> realtional db in Paradox using PAL. Loved it! So that was my 
> introduction to small relational db's.
> 
> Years later I cut back a bit on work to have my 3 children 
> and was offered a part-time job doing computer training 
> (which I still do a bit) so I had to learn Access to give the 
> course. Trainees would approach us after the courses for help 
> and I could see these applications whcih were going out 
> without proper planning, testing etc. so I started offering 
> those services on behalf of the training company. After a 
> while I realised that I was becoming a one man band - making 
> the sales pitch (still not a forte), designing the system, 
> programming, testing and training the staff for 
> inplementation - why do all this for someone else? So for the 
> last 5 years I have been running my own small company doing 
> just that - writing customised apps for clients using almost 
> 100% Access - usually in 2000. 
> 
> Sometimes I am asked to create someting in Word or Excel. I 
> also now do a bit of project management and user acceptance 
> testing on behalf of clients.
> 
> Not much change in the type of work over the 5 years - no one 
> has asked me for Xp yet at all - so still implementing all 
> Access 2000. 
> 
> Kath
> 
> 
> 
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Steve Erbach [mailto:erbachs at gmail.com]
> >>> Sent: 21 February 2005 12:44
> >>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> >>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?
> >>>
> >>> Roz, Gustav, John C., Gary, Jeffrey, Jim D. Doris, Debbie, Brett, 
> >>> Charlotte, Ken, Mark, John B., Stuart, William, Rocky, 
> Jim L., Jim 
> >>> H., Andy, Randy, and Tom,
> >>>
> >>> Thank you all very much for your responses. Our glorious 
> leader, Mr. 
> >>> Bartow, has asked me to write an article for the 
> newsletter based on 
> >>> the responses you've given. So I'm asking if any of you have any 
> >>> objections to letting me abridge your responses for that 
> purpose? It 
> >>> would also be helpful if those of you who already gave an
> >> "abridged"
> >>> version for the survey could flesh out your responses a 
> bit, if you 
> >>> have the time. I would appreciate it. Everyone has an interesting 
> >>> story to tell about his or her own growth in the computer field.
> >>>
> >>> I'm so glad that 21 of you have responded so far. Any others?
> >>>
> >>> Steve Erbach
> >>> Neenah, WI
> >>> www.swerbach.com/security
> >>>
> >>>
> 
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