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

Andy Lacey andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Wed Feb 23 01:54:33 CST 2005


Totally, just a few years before you.

-- 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: 23 February 2005 07:45
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?
> 
> 
> Que?? Is that possible??
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Andy Lacey 
>   To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' 
>   Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:33 PM
>   Subject: RE: [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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