How did you learn how to do what you do for a living?

[Bertha Venation]

The choices seem vague to me but I can't figure out how else to word them. Plus, I am sure that there are lots of other ways to learn to do a job. Use "Other."

[HopeHoops]

1. I was a computer geek in high school (Apple II, late 70's)

I'm entirely self-taught. I did graduate college with honors and a double major, but not in computers.

[REP]

9. Lucky you; we had Trash 80s

[yawnmaster]

11. Same here...

Degree is not in computers, but that is what I've done for 30 years.

[LanternWaste]

2. Although it wasn't much of a training program...

Although it wasn't much of a training program at the time, I had one for my initial job as a Typesetter. Since then, I've expanded it to an actual program with a step-by-step how-to manual I had fun fun writing over the course of a few weekends. Makes my post-typesetter job (i.e., typesetter boss job) a lot easier, and makes the job a heck of a lot easier for the new hires.

[TZ]

3. Although I have a degree, I really didn't learn to do what I do

in college. I learned the theoretical background though. So it was on the job formal training...

[sakabatou]

4. Took a class and now I'm doing digital paintings.

[graywarrior]

5. Being a slacker.

It pays off...trust me.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Pure passion and curiosity.

A bit of book learning and tech schooling afterward.

[Kali]

7. I voted "other", but several of the choices apply.

I learned a lot from my Grandfather - actually more like absorbed it as I was a kid. Learned some things from my parents, college, some other people, books, and probably the vast majority by fire - on the job and through mistakes.

[Chan790]

8. Well...I don't earn a living at it and it was all talent.

It is nevertheless a job.

[MrSlayer]

10. 5 year apprenticeship and schooling.

You aren't going to learn to be a true craftsman simply by reading books.