[Ipg-smz] What college class or major did you transfer out of?

[Perlow, Jason]

I didn't know you work for Red Hat now. Congrats! What do you do there?

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:51 PM Ken Hess via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
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> 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.
>
> I then taught high school for two years.
>
> 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.
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>
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>
> Ken
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> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:47 AM Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz <
> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 23, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz <
>> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>>
>>         Just curious, what class or major did you transfer out of?
>>
>>
>> When I was accepted at Brandeis, I was asked to provide a major, so that
>> I could be assigned the right advisor.
>>
>> 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.’”
>>
>> “Well,” mom said, “You could always write books about computers!”
>>
>> I responded with the plaintive whine of a 17-year-old, “Mothhhhhhhher!”
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> …So now I write about computers.
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