the specifics of your chronology really matter to me. i read this with a lot of personal interest, and i want an as clear as possible picture of what is possible.
17: data processing department; 19: florida; 20: quit; 22: returned to computers ?
what phase of the industry did all of this happen in? it seems like you've managed without a college degree?
I pulled up my resume to figure this out, since I kind of suck at anything time-related.
17 (almost 18): data processing department, starting in 1996; 20: Florida, in Summer 1999; quit almost exactly a year later, at 21; got my first computer job again at 25, in 2004. So it was actually a 4-year gap (!).
I left the computer industry just months before the big dot-com crash, but I was really burned out by then, and predicted the crash anyway. (IPOs had gotten completely out of control.)
And no, I don't have a college degree or much in the way of a college education at all, unfortunately. I'm really not proud of that, but I haven't been disciplined enough for college until more recently, and now I'm too busy and have other goals. I would never brag to anyone that "I've gotten this far without a college degree"; I'm not fond of that trend these days, and I do think that having at least some college education is very important.
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the specifics of your chronology really matter to me. i read this with a lot of personal interest, and i want an as clear as possible picture of what is possible.
17: data processing department; 19: florida; 20: quit; 22: returned to computers ?
what phase of the industry did all of this happen in? it seems like you've managed without a college degree?
I pulled up my resume to figure this out, since I kind of suck at anything time-related.
17 (almost 18): data processing department, starting in 1996; 20: Florida, in Summer 1999; quit almost exactly a year later, at 21; got my first computer job again at 25, in 2004. So it was actually a 4-year gap (!).
I left the computer industry just months before the big dot-com crash, but I was really burned out by then, and predicted the crash anyway. (IPOs had gotten completely out of control.)
And no, I don't have a college degree or much in the way of a college education at all, unfortunately. I'm really not proud of that, but I haven't been disciplined enough for college until more recently, and now I'm too busy and have other goals. I would never brag to anyone that "I've gotten this far without a college degree"; I'm not fond of that trend these days, and I do think that having at least some college education is very important.