Career Path: English Degree to a Job in IT

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If someone had told me I'd be a computer programmer after college graduation I would've laughed in his face. I was an English major! I edited student newspapers, wrote poetry and studied Shakespeare. I didn't know a JCL statement from a Legacy system, nor did I care!

I never expected to work in IT, but that's where I ended up. Let me tell you how it happened.

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