On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:26:32 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:42:45 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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I was a part time college student, also learning computers while being paid
by NCR. As to a career, I made more per year than my college professor
stepfather before I got my university degree.

Once I was with IBM I could get 100% reimbursement for my college if I
wanted it but I also worked at 2 colleges and I could sit in on any
class I wanted. I did look at a few and I was not impressed. The
computer science kids were following me around asking me questions
their professor couldn't answer.


NCR paid 80%. I just did not want to be an FE forever.

I had enough other opportunities available within the basic structure
that I was OK. In the end I passed on some of the most lucrative ones
(short term) I was an instructor for a while, I worked in plant tech
support, I had no real interest in management (probably a good thing
since they took most of the early layoffs) and I did not want to be a
systems analysts (again the first to go). None of them would have been
easier to get with a degree anyway.
When the opportunity to run a 6 man resident territory opened up in
Florida I jumped on it and ended up at the top of the box anyway.
Being a non-exempt level 23** I made more money than my boss ;-)