How did u pick your technology?
 

Hey,
This question is for all the IT professionals out there.

I m into IT Support and want to make a career in IT...

I learnt lil' bit of SQL,D2k,Oracle Apps,Python,Linux Administration(thnx to LQ)...Basically evrything bits and pieces...
I still could not pick one technology which I am passionate enough to think about a career in that.

What I want to know is how did u land up in the technology u r in?
Some of my friends are continuing with what they got after college...and are not sure whether they like it,and are just continuing there to pay off they credit card bills :)


cheers,
Jared

I got interested in computers when I was in graduate school (an IBM 1620), but did not get a chance to do much since most computers were not available for public use, even in the companies I worked for. I read a lot about them, and about programming, but without a handy computer, it was all pretty theoretical.

I finally went to work at a place that had time sharing computers available. During my first week there, I harassed my boss (first week there, remember) to show me how to use them.. A week later, I knew more about it than he did, and was writing programs in BASIC to do calculations that I had been doing with a slide rule, and later with a calculator.

Since that time I have been writing programs in various languages for various computers, and I loved doing that. Some of the programs that I wrote were essentially databases for various projects I was involved in.

As time went along, I started getting interested in other computer and computer-related technoligies, as they related to various aspects of my job. And I learned a number of new languages which were better suited to what I wanted to do.

So I think that I just evolved into a general jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none type of computer geek. And most of it revolved around work that I was doing, rather than around any particular computer job.

I became interested in the internet and in GNU/Linux, started learning HTML and so forth, and I just keep expanding the things that I do. I have been doing GNU/Linux things since 1999, and have used various distros over the years, and I have been using GNU/Linux pretty consistently for the past 4 years.

I am retired now, so that I can spend my time doing that things that I really like to do now, like creating web pages, writing scripts, taking classes, and so forth.

All in all, it has been a great deal of fun.

I do believe that having a non-computer position gave me more freedom to do the computer things that I liked, rather than computer things that somebody else wanted to do.