-=> MARK HOFMANN wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

 SD> I used to get yelled at when I was in school at ITT Tech for SSHing into
 SD> my server at home by the school's IT tech (an older guy). I really pissed
 SD> him off when I set my SSH port to 443. He couldn't prove otherwise.

Bleh - computers in High School? Never had 'em LOL

 MH> I started working professionally in IT at age 18, but felt I had to at
 MH> least experience a few college classes since my work offered to pay for
 MH> them.

Same here, I was very lucky that my father was a programmer, he worked
on IBM mainframes and he started his own consulting firm in 1980 doing
programming on IBM midrange boxes. I "interned" there for awhile,
learned a lot of on the job programming and never looked back

 MH> The two experiences confirmed that college was not for me.  I never
 MH> looked back and did just fine.

I tried college right out of HS. But being 1982, after a few months I
got a job offer paying $10/hr for system operator, so I jumped at it. 

I did go back for some college in my 40s and I enjoyed that experience.
I took the basics and actually enjoyed mathmatics, took a C class since
I never learned C, that was fun. But it was just for that, for fun. 

I learned a lot of logic, coding, accounting and business management
by actually doing it (and making mistakes... big ones sometimes). 

Kev


 
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