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In reply to the discussion: Ok, age check, who remembers? [View all]csziggy
(34,139 posts)After I got my degree (BS with a double major in Library Science and Anthropology) the one job I was offered in my degree field was a temporary position to try out computer cataloging at the local university library. There would have been a direct computer linkage to the Library of Congress cataloging computer.
There were several problems with the job - it was temporary with no leave time, no benefits, no promise of future employment. I had never worked with computers and was not sure if I would like it. We'd just gotten married, made an offer on property, had planned a month long trip across country, and I had bought horses for starting a breeding operation. With no leave time, I would have had to completely change my life plans and for a temporary job it just didn't seem worth it.
I bought my first computer a number of years later and learned that I liked working with computers. Of course that Apple ][ was completely different that whatever system I might have been given at the library but I have adapted to various computer operating systems over the years with no problem.
Occasionally I wonder how different my life would have been if I had not raised horses and run a farm for my life's work. But I don't regret my choice - I'd be a different person now.