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This is called a précis because it is, an impressionistic one at that, there were software dev deeds at IBM and elsewhere detailed in the tail of the Auteur resume whose front matter is focused on my current and vastly enriched work life, free of extraneous constraints and the excuses that go with them. Because I am retired from the kind of work where a resume would be a thing that front matter isn going to updated to reflect the reality in this domain space. | This is called a précis because it is, an impressionistic one at that, there were software dev deeds at IBM and elsewhere detailed in the tail of the Auteur resume whose front matter is focused on my current and vastly enriched work life, free of extraneous constraints and the excuses that go with them. Because I am retired from the kind of work where a resume would be a thing that front matter isn going to updated to reflect the reality in this domain space. | ||
Blaming Sandy and NotTheMama for not being engineers or scientists for a less than propitious start, plus a generous helping of mea culpas, my work life in this Gregorian epoch was less than it might have been. Persisting far longer than most landed me however with an unusual depth and breadth of experience as a [[Mensa|<span style="color: cyan;">life long learner</span>]] to | Blaming Sandy and NotTheMama for not being engineers or scientists for a less than propitious start, plus a generous helping of mea culpas, my work life in this Gregorian epoch was less than it might have been. Persisting far longer than most landed me however with an unusual depth and breadth of experience as a [[Mensa|<span style="color: cyan;">life long learner</span>]] to this belle epoch. Things were learned. So while I don't have the CV of a [[:en:Doug Lenat|<span style="color: cyan;">Doug Lenat</span>]] or [[:en:Jaime Carbonell|<span style="color: cyan;">Jaime Carbonell</span>]], I'm still here, enjoying florit, and looking forward to a lot more of it. Going cold turkey on wage labor is harder than it looks. The first work I remember was at age 8 when NotTheMama told me to go the local supermarket and offer to help ladies carry their groceries, which I did do and being a cute kid, successfully, the ancestor of the PWYWG, which is a fix for that jones. | ||
1974 is the actual start because that's when I took training at the schools Control Data was running and actually did first programming, but I went back for a 4 year degree majoring in Math and CS and only had Operator jobs before 1980. I did have a DP course at a community college before CDC in '73 which pushes it back to my teens. The Control Data Institute I went to btw, was in the building shown on the Bob Newhart Show at that time on Michigan Avenue as being where he had his office. Like many I just left college and went to The Valley to start my first professional job but I did graduate as I had enough hours, a A- average and was paid up so De Paul granted me an Arts degree instead of the Science one for the Math program I was supposed to be in. In an ideal path Ida started earlier and finished a Masters but it really wouldn have made a difference in my ability to read relevant literature or deal with industry, since in Math and CS there's nothing to stop you from doing that on your own. | 1974 is the actual start because that's when I took training at the schools Control Data was running and actually did first programming, but I went back for a 4 year degree majoring in Math and CS and only had Operator jobs before 1980. I did have a DP course at a community college before CDC in '73 which pushes it back to my teens. The Control Data Institute I went to btw, was in the building shown on the Bob Newhart Show at that time on Michigan Avenue as being where he had his office. Like many I just left college and went to The Valley to start my first professional job but I did graduate as I had enough hours, a A- average and was paid up so De Paul granted me an Arts degree instead of the Science one for the Math program I was supposed to be in. In an ideal path Ida started earlier and finished a Masters but it really wouldn have made a difference in my ability to read relevant literature or deal with industry, since in Math and CS there's nothing to stop you from doing that on your own. | ||
