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Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?



"Brooks R. Robinson" <brooks.robinson@rides.com> writes:

> | I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> | why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> | all of this stuff.  Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> | long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these
> | levels that all of you are at?
> |
> | Just curious...
>
> Well, yes and no.  I have sort of a round about computer history.  I got my
> first computer when I was 10, a TI-99/4A -- that should date me properly,
> and I liked it a lot.  I got a Commodore 128 a few years later and learned
> assembly.  I went to college to become a musician and later sold out my art
> for money, I changed to a business major.  Got BBA and an MBA, I'm also a
> CPA.  I'm addicted to college, so I came back to computing and am working on
> a MS in CS with 9 hours to go!  I've been on debian since bo, and I like to
> program in plain old C (if you can't do it in C, it can't or shouldn't be
> done).  I work as an accountant/systems admin for a manufacturing company.

That doesn't sound at all like the Brooks Robinson I'm familiar with
</baseball joke>...

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It's over here in a jar.  Would you like to see it?

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