Career Reflections

 

It was 50 years ago today, November 1st, 1971, that IBM began paying me to write programs.  I often call that one of the smartest business decisions I ever made — transferring from accounting to systems.

I only worked for IBM's Field Engineering Information Systems (FEIS) unit for another almost-eight years, before leaving to do contract programming at IT&T and American Can Co., leading to a permanent job with Aramco in Houston, Texas in August of 1981.  By 1984, due to Aramco deciding to Saudi-ize the workforce, I reconnected with IBM and moved to Florida's Suncoast.  Gruesome details on that journey, should you wish to revisit them, can be found on this blog at Life after IBM and Dave Boyd and the STSS.

It has been, all things considered, a very pleasant, productive, and profitable 50 years, and I'm still glad I did it.