I loved drawing, I loved being creative. In a way that does link in with what I’ve ended up doing for a living, designing/developing/managing computer systems (applications).
So architecture was my plan, but how did I end up doing a degree in Computer Science and end up working in IT? Well to be honest I’m not quite sure! When I was at school (both primary and secondary) there were no computers in my schools, they were only just beginning to become “home computers”!
Yeah I know, I’m old, and putting this down in writing just makes me feel even older!
So computing was becoming the “in” thing to do when I was at secondary school, so I think that plus my general interest in what computers could potentially do for us, lead me toward a career in computing.
I left school with the required qualifications to be able to do a degree in Computer Science, so I did that and so the rest, as they say is history.
Sometimes I do wish I’d pursued a career in architecture as I still think I could have done that, been good at it and enjoyed it, however I’m still happy to have got my computing degree and to still be working in IT. Like everyone I still have days when I wish I had a different job, but in the whole I’m still happy to be an IT professional!
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