<div dir="ltr">When I started college, I was a Chemistry major. I became pre-Med after working in multiple hospitals in various roles and even getting to go into the OR and watch surgeries. When my first wife and I transferred to Texas A&M, where she pursued and earned an MS in Chemistry, I decided that I hated A&M and wanted out of it the quickest way possible. I switched to Psychology, so I have a Psychology major and Chemistry minor from A&M. I went to graduate school in Biochemistry at The University of North Texas to pursue a Ph.D., but dropped out after a year when I found out that Post-doctoral people earned less than high school teachers.<div><br></div><div>I then taught high school for two years.</div><div><br></div><div>After that, I found a job in Dallas as an environmental chemist and after a few years, I switched from Chemistry to IT when I got a job in Desktop support at WorldCom. I ran my own computer consulting business for 8 years until I went to work for EDS/HP for 16 long years. Now I work for Red Hat. It's my second week. I'm a full-time writer and content curator. My mantra: Switching it up. Keeping it fresh.</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Ken</div><div><br></div>Kenneth Hess<br>(918) 919-0411<br>Twitter: @kenhess<br><div>Skype: kenneth_hess</div><a href="http://www.kenhess.com/" target="_blank">kenhess.com</a> - <a href="http://frugalnetworker.com/" target="_blank">frugalnetworker.com</a><br></div><div>Filmmaker - Podcaster - Reviewer - System Administrator - Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:47 AM Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">On Jul 23, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif;font-size:16px"> Just curious, what class or major did you transfer out of?</span><br><div><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>When I was accepted at Brandeis, I was asked to provide a major, so that I could be assigned the right advisor. </div><div><br></div><div>I didn’t really know what I wanted, so I contemplated my two best subjects in high school: programming and English. I told my mother, “I don’t know whether to write down ‘computer science’ or ‘English.’”</div><div><br></div><div>“Well,” mom said, “You could always write books about computers!”</div><div><br></div><div>I responded with the plaintive whine of a 17-year-old, “Mothhhhhhhher!”</div><div><br></div><div>But neither of those majors lasted a semester. I discovered that an English major was expected to read boring 18th century fiction and to re-do all the grammar courses I’d already aced. And — given that I already thought I knew how to program — I cut classes for programming so much that I was utterly lost. I got a C on the final (and didn’t even deserve that). I’d never gotten a C before and I freaked out. I didn’t come back to programming for five years.</div><div><br></div><div>I switched to Linguistics, with a minor in Women’s Studies. The latter was a minor only because it wasn’t available as a major. Had I stayed for my senior year, my thesis was going to be on the anthropology of women and language.</div><div><br></div><div>…So now I write about computers.</div></div>-- <br>
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