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Worked for a Fotune 100 company for 38 years, ---20+ years of that writing code. Back then we coded in ANSI COBOL....and we didn't just write programs, we designed and built systems, with as many as 10 programms all connected by JCL (Job Control Language)....Yea, we were a strange lot---waking up in the middle of the night and finding a codeing sheet because you just figured out the logic for a whole program. One of our biggest accomplishments was designing and build a process into every program so that it never abended online, and have to get up in the middle of the night to fix it. we even built a system that eleminated all printed paper. Profitable?? Maybe not by todays standards, but $28 an hour plus all benifits payed seem great back then. The greatest thrill was building something that worked
and not getting your hands dirty. The learning curve---well they put us through an intense 8 week coarse, and said "now you are one"--which I thought was pretty good since I never had a grade in math over a C in highschool. Mostly it was logic, just plain dumb logic.
If you get into this field you must realize that you never stop learning--if you blink your eyes something new will pass you by...
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