Why did you go into IT?

[Former Member]

Why did you go into IT?

The reasons I went into IT are as follows:

1. I already knew programming before going to College, and thought it would be easy learning computers in College!

2. I liked programing and working with computer applications.

3. I wanted to travel, working all over the world, and thought that I would be able to get a job in many different countries in IT.

Al Lal

www.olap.wetpaint.com

[Benny]

This will make me feel quite old...

It was back in 1978, I think, when I was attracted by computers (at that time I hadn't even seen one). I considered going into IT over my elder wish to become an archaeologist.

To decide this I one day went through a newspaper into job advertisements. I found one that said something like: Seeking for computer scientist. Starting salary 9000.- DM ( about 4500u20AC)

This decided my career.

Interesting remarks:

-this was 1978, the money today would be about three times as much.

-today nobody would place a sum into a job advertisement, to keep reputability.(although this was a reputable news paper)

-I was about 15 years old.

Regards,

Benny

[Former Member]

> I considered going into IT over my elder wish to become an archaeologist.

I am more familiar with the ABAP stack, but when working on Java systems I sometimes get the feeling that my hat is missing and find myself calling my colleague "Shorty" when he says things like:

> Feels like I step on fortune cookie!

Julius

[former_member205352]

>

> Why did you go into IT?
> 
> The reasons I went into IT are as follows:
> 
> 1.  I already knew programming before going to College, and thought it would be easy learning computers in College!
> 
> 2.  I liked programing and working with computer applications.
> 
> 3.  I wanted to travel, working all over the world, and thought that I would be able to get a job in many different countries in IT.
> 
> Al Lal
> www.olap.wetpaint.com

Cool discussion

Got into IT by chance.

Initially thought "Luck By Chance"

Now realize "What the hell was I thinking then"

IT is all about sitting whole day infront of computer and make others rich and you get a bit ricker too

[Former Member]

I was forced into it. Someone had to explain that **** to the accountants!

Edited by: Samuel Lopez on Sep 24, 2008 11:04 PM

[Former Member]

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> I was forced into it. Someone had to explain that **** to the accountants!
> 
> Edited by: Samuel Lopez on Sep 24, 2008 11:04 PM

Your explanations were successful?:)

[Former Member]

I was bored studying for accountancy exams and you don;t have to take exams in IT

That is until I started taking bloody FICO and BW exams in the late 90s

[Former Member]

It just seemed to happen without me knowing it ........ and 15 years later I'm still promising myself that when I grow up (ok, IF I grow up) I want a 'real' job like a train driver, an astronaut or a footballer.

[Former Member]

Yes, That's why I still have a job!

[Former Member]

Hmm.. Intresting thread:) Before I've fell in love with ABAP, I was a little disappointed with this IT games. But my good friend gave me advice to look at SAP and ABAP. So, I get a second breath with it.

Sorry for mistakes, it is my first post)

[Former Member]

> Sorry for mistakes, it is my first post

Looks like you have been studying [the rules|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/home/rulesofEngagement] since 21st of January 2008 already to prepare for this first post.

Just joking and welcome to SDN

Julius

[Former Member]

Thanks. It's pretty cold in my region)

[former_member184657]

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> Thanks. It's pretty cold in my region)

Which would mean you were hibernating the winter gone-by??

pk

[bpawanchand]

Ooooppppppppppppsssssssssssss

[Former Member]

accidently i have come into IT sector and had nothing else to do

[Former Member]

Marios Brothers made me to get in to IT. 😛

Huge fan of PC Games, Thought of going in to game development. But started off with VC++ during my academics.

Then jumped into AS400 in begining of my career.

Now, Enjoying ABAP for two and half years.

Computers was fancy stuff for me, This machine made me to choose IT, Otherwise would have been a pilot.

[matt]

Office work, with no heaving lifting. Seemed ideal. Well, it was either that, or down t'pit.

My father brought home a ZX80 from his school, and I learned to program on that. Then they upgrade to ZX81s, so, while my friends were playing computer games, I was writing them. Learned Z80A, then BBC Micros came out, and I started writing games and other tools for those; also some assembler. When I discovered girls, I stopped mucking around with computers and got a life instead.

At school I got very interested in chemistry - but found it too easy and got bored, so decided to study Maths and Computer Science at university. After graduating, was looking for a job, and I had two offers: graduate training, in IT, through British Gas or mathematical modelling at a Marconi (!). I took the former.

[ThomasZloch]

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> I stopped mucking around with computers and got a life instead.

Really? When I discovered computers I stopped mucking around with girls.

[former_member184657]

Nerd!!!

pk

[ThomasZloch]

Guilty. Things have changed since, fortunately...

END-OF-DISCLOSURE.

[Former Member]

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> Guilty. Things have changed since, fortunately...
> 
> 
END-OF-DISCLOSURE.

Though

END-OF-DISCLOSURE

should be called by default

[matt]

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> Guilty. Things have changed since, fortunately...
> 
> 
END-OF-DISCLOSURE.

Hey Thomas

When you're in a hole. Stop digging.

😄

[Former Member]

So..... to turn this thread around..........

Why did you get out of IT? <= effectively locks this thread!

[matt]

Poor pay, no respect from society, no social life. And bad coffee.

[former_member184657]

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> So..... to turn this thread around..........
> 
> Why did you get out of IT?  

Surely, you meant to ask: Why would you get out of IT ?

Apart from No Respect from Society, No Social Life and in my case Less Coffee, there's:

Strained Eyes

Slouched Back

Eternal Keyboard tapping sounds(even while asleep)

Being repetitive in life

Completely oblivious to the outside world

Forgetting how to live Life.

pk

[ThomasZloch]

here some countermeasures that I successfully apply:

- happy family life

- gym or sports club membership (and actually making use of it)

- other hobbies (e.g. collecting music in my case)

See, I'm logging on to R/3 (and successor) systems almost every morning for 15 years now and I did not go nuts yet (contrary to what some of my posts might indicate).

Cheers

Thomas

[thomas_jung]

In college I was a journalism major. I hung out in the computer lab all the time, however, because my girlfriend (who is now my wife) was a Computer Information Systems major.

At first I helped people out in the lab with their basic computer stuff - Word Perfect, Lotus, etc. Before too long though I found myself helping people out with their programming homework - mostly Cobol and RPG.

That kind of convinced me that I should use an elective or two on this programming stuff. I was hooked and changed my major my Junior year. I think I made the right move and I never regret the skills I picked up from my first two years in Journalism.

[NathanGenez]

it's better than reviewing financial statements IMO. it took all of 15 minutes sitting in front of an SAP session being trained on FICO that I knew I would never go back to traditional accounting work ever again.

-nathan

[Former Member]

I used to watch a lot of this NatGeo and History Channel stuff and was pretty amazed and what technology can do by recreating images of the body of Tuthankamen, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the face of Cleopatra and what not !!

And its still interests me. And of course seeing the way that a simple few lines of code could make things automated and simple.

But I believe once you're in IT every technology has its own interesting stuff to offer and so does SAP technologies.

P.S. Btw do you know if theres a program in C/Java to solve up a Sudoku puzzle. I am addicted to solving them and hopefully will try my luck in "automating" that as well.

[ChrisSolomon]

And of course seeing the way that a simple few lines of code could make things automated and simple. 

That's the beauty of technology, right?...making the complex "appear" simple.

end user: "See....I press this button here....and out comes a can of Coke! ....just that simple!"

developer/engineer/techy: "But HOW does the can of Coke 'come out' ?"

end user: "I press this button."

😃

[matt]

>

> end user: "See....I press this button here....and out comes a can of Coke! ....just that simple!"
> developer/engineer/techy: "But HOW does the can of Coke 'come out' ?"
> end user: "I press this button." 
> 
> =)

Ah, you've met my sister-in-law!

[Former Member]

By accident!

I qualified as a chef when i left school and when it got quiet, I wrote a stock control system in DBIII

I then left that to work as a finance clerk and got dragged on to SAP implementation as a Business Process Owner! Did some FI/S&D for a few years, tried Basis for a few projects.

Now I work as an XI Consultant!

I actually found something I enjoy!

[Wil_Wilstroth]

Back in 1997, I can still remember my life was low. I felt empty and lonely. No money, no booze and no girls... so i just laid on my bed in a small room surrounded by four white walls. Felt sick and dreadful. Yes, those times were dull... Then suddenly a bright light came out of no where... big words 'SAP' ermeged out of it... Gosh... it rescue me...

Now in 2008... i am in my cubicle, hunched over my keyboards, typing ABAP code for users and wearing thick eye glasses....

I wonder what will happen if i did not chose to follow SAP....

[Former Member]

it was "Space Invaders" fault!

for the younger folks who do not know what I am talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders

[Former Member]

Anyone remember Q*bert? I remember playing that game for hours on end.

I got serious about computers when my old IBM Aptiva broke down on me all the time and it was the option of either learn how to fix it myself, or get used to staying on hold for 2 hours just so that someone on the other end of the world can tell me that it's not covered under my warranty. I began taking it apart and have been fascinated ever since.

[Former Member]

I guess those early home computers have a lot to answer for.

I offer the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (the high spec version with 48k of memory, obviously). I'd spend hours typing the code for games printed in magazines, only to find that they didn't run. After that investment of time what other option did I have than try to fix them myself. I supposed you'd call it debugging (not that I knew that at the time).

Nick

[stephenjohannes]

Because I was too young to be walmart greeter, and stocking shelves just gets boring after hour or so.

Seriously though I think it was because meteorology paid too low, didn't care for the physics classes required for EE, and politics takes too long. I guess that is why I ended getting a compsci degree and ending up in IT.

Now if I could only find a replacement powersupply and tape drive for that old TI 99/4A machine down in the basement.

Take care,

Stephen

[Former Member]

Actually I wouldn't think it's been that bad for you..! If you were to work in temperatures which drop from 45 Deg Cel to - 3 Deg Cel in a matter of 10 days. Sweat trickling from your helmet down to your legs and finally getting soaked up by the socks! Noise so high that people making a career out of it retire more or less stone deaf. The stench and stain of diesel dies only after several months you were relieved from work and taken leave. You feel you are living for several months on a roller coaster especially when the sea is rough.

Welcome to the maintenance engineer's life on board a crude carrier.

Now do you think I would crib for working in a spic and span air conditioned office? I would have retained just my right hand and bartered the rest for this life. Right hand because once in a while I need to type such messages.

Bala

[ThomasZloch]

Hard to tell, I was probably born with that gene...I was fascinated right away by the first home computers in 1981/1982 and borrowed a ZX81 then a VC20 from my older cousin. Typing in code from magazines just as Nick reported. Tic Tac Toe and stuff like that. Had my own Apple IIe from 1984 on, when every other geek in school had a C64. You either had a computer or a girlfriend, period.

After my IT curriculum I was in the right place at the right time when in 1993 my company implemented SAP R/3 Release 1.2 and they asked me to help migrating data from an ancient mainframe application.

Being a contractor since a while I am right now working for the successor company and they have actually saved the version database throughout the years so I can stare at code I wrote 15 years ago...very funny indeed.

Enjoy

[Former Member]

At high school I did a weekend session where we got to program machine code into a PDP-8 with 256 bytes of memory using the front panel switches, and could watch the lights flash in different patterns.

That would be in the 1970's

Have been fascinated with computers ever since. Took me 20 years to get to working in the industry instead of just having computers as a hobby.

Andrew

[Former Member]

I developed my interest in computers when I got my first PC (Amiga 500). The local game rental store owner introduced me to the BBS scene, and the rest is history

[Former Member]

I was hit on the head and dragged into a small cubicle. I haven't been out in 25 years.

It's 1999 isn't it????

Rob

[kiran_k8]

Hi,

Good Question by Abhinav :-).

I got to read lot many interesting replies some quite funny and some quite weird.

As far as I am concerned I am into IT just to see that my five fingers reaches my mouth twice a day or rather I say thrice or even more depending on my hunger pangs.Nothing more nothing less.

K.Kiran.

[Former Member]

I hope that you are not unhappy in IT, even if it only feeds you.

Perhaps you have a hobby or personal interest which could be converted into a career?

That is what happened to me: I have been in Finance for the past 10 years (accountant, auditor, finance analyst)... I discovered the F1 key about 8 years ago and since February 2008 I am now formally in the IT department...

[Former Member]

I'm just thinking aloud.

"Did i actually have a choice??".....

(Most South Indians who pursued their Engineering graduation would appreciate what I mean...)

Regards,

Ravi Kanth Talagana

[Former Member]

For the women...

Boy, did I made a wrong choice 😄

[JPReyes]

It all started like 25 odd years ago with a little "turttle" called LOGO (i think)...

Then i got my brand new ATARI 800XL with 32k of memory and the very own little switch that you used to plug to the antenna of the tele (The TV - computer one if someone remember)

Then I did my first pro job for a international firm as Unix Admin at the age of 16... and the rest is history.

At lease i never did any crappy jobs like telemarketing or pick strawberries... hehehe

Juan

[Former Member]

Hey! I remember LOGO too!! I hated that Turtle though...

The commands went something like RT90 and it would turn 90 degrees to the right, LT, 120, etc. I had that in school in 1994 or something (I remember I wasn't in my teens yet)..I remember thinking how stupid it was and gave up on computers at the time - something unthinkable now

Sameer

[former_member184657]

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> Hey! I remember LOGO too!! I hated that Turtle though...
> 
> The commands went something like RT90 and it would turn 90 degrees to the right, LT, 120, etc. I had that in school in 1994 or something (I remember I wasn't in my teens yet)..I remember thinking how stupid it was and gave up on computers at the time - something unthinkable now 
> 
> Sameer

Strange.. LOGO was my first tryst with computers too. But unlike you, I actually got hooked on to it, coz I guess I was getting good at it. But sadly the summer camp ended and did not touch computers for another 5 odd years.

And then again I got fascinated with micro-chips and the 8080 processor and stuff. Did a Bachelors in Electronics, majored in Networks, before I decided to turn the ABAP way. No regrets... for now

pk

[Former Member]

>

> Strange.. LOGO was my first tryst with computers too. But unlike you, I actually got hooked on to it, coz I guess I was getting good at it. But sadly the summer camp ended and did not touch computers for another 5 odd years.
> pk

Dont know what exactly you are discussion of....I just want to share of my first ineraction of Computers..

when i am 10th class ........Just before join my course some trainer taken to me APTECH where the room full of AC i wonder why AC is on they told that as like humans computers will effect with virus thats why they want cool temperature should on always..

and they showed me the Paint where its a miracle for me.....but i now get laught that opening each paint has taken almost 5 minutes gap :-)..Now i cant wait for 2 more minutes to get my report o/p .....Now all the past funny things revinded once ...thanks

regards

sas

[Former Member]

I don't know fortunately or Unfortunately, How I found my self in IT!

Since Childhood I was complete sports person. I represent U-15, U-17,U21 for Rajasthan. I splurged my whole teenage all in Cricket. In My education I had one year Gap only because of we had to visit Sri lanka for couple of matches against Gale Sports Club (Formerly known as President Academy).We were lost with huge margin. I was scattered and complete disappointed, however right after I got selected in National Squad (only for training camp).But still meanwhile I managed myself to get admission into Engineering (Yes on payment seat ). I was below average student in subjects of science but at the same time I was crazy about Maths (Only because I used-to to count Runs and Required Rate all the time ).

So the year from "99 to "03 was the key for my career (with aspect of sports and education wise both).In First Year of Engineering I through without any Compartment. But In Second Year I got stuck in 2 Subjects But I was least bother about this as my sports career had not been affected. Yes Due to sports my Education career had always been penetrating.Guys believe me in my four year of Engineering life I only wrote one Program from myself which was Swapping the values of A and B without using third variable, that was in C++

However,Finally by hook or crook I managed my self in 03 in Final Year(Yes Final Semester too, No compartment Had Been carry forward ) In my through Life, I only took myself away from Cricket in Final Semester because now I wanted to Through in my Education. Only because my instincts and somebody says from inside I spend 3 and half year with cricket and Education so I must through when my Ship was almost on the shore.

Finally I got a chance to work in company where SAP ECC was about to Implement. I donu2019t know from where I got inspiration and courage to work rather than sport but yes I preferred to work there. Since now Iu2019m in SAP and I left a Cricket way back. But yes still I used-to manage to play over the week-ends, only when time allows.

And now Iu2019m the only SAP person in my project that has handling FI-CO and ABAP stuff, yes sometimes Basis too

Cheers,

Amit.

[Former Member]

Dont know what exactly you are discussion of....I just want to share of my first ineraction of Computers..
when i am 10th class ........Just before join my course some trainer taken to me APTECH where the room full of AC i wonder why AC is on they told that as like humans computers will effect with virus thats why they want cool temperature should on always.. and they showed me the Paint where its a miracle for me.....but i now get laught that opening each paint has taken almost 5 minutes gap :-)..Now i cant wait for 2 more minutes to get my report o/p .....Now all the past funny things revinded once ...thanks

I don't understand this language. Is this a deliberate artistic style or do I have to take some additional english lessions?

...taken to you APTECH...?

...open a paint...?

[Former Member]

APTECH was a computer software training institute in India.

The first thing they do is open MS PAINT and tell you to draw something and save it.

Regards

Dinesh

[Former Member]

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> I don't understand this language. Is this a deliberate artistic style or do I have to take some additional english lessions?
> ...taken to you APTECH...? 
> ...open a paint...?

Oh...Anton its a typcial indian words what maked you confuse...

Thanks Dinesh for clearing it off and one word what is still make you confusing is 10th Class......

i dont know what way makes you understood i think you people call as high school education....

Regards

sas

[Former Member]

Hi!

>>where the room full of AC i wonder why AC is on they told that as like humans computers will effect >>with virus thats why they want cool temperature should on always..

What does an AC have to do with a computer virus?? They actually tell you that in APTECH??

T00th

[Former Member]

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> What does an AC have to do with a computer virus?? They actually tell you that in APTECH??
> 
> T00th

Humm Sameer!! Welcome back again...........that's we know now thats its a big joke .............

regards

sas

[matt]

I thought it was quite the reverse - AC units encourage a proliferation of bugs...

[Former Member]

Hi Anton

Anton Wenzelhuemer wrote :

saslove sap wrote:

Dont know what exactly you are discussion of I just want to share of my first ineraction of Computers

when i am 10th class Just before join my course some trainer taken to me APTECH where the room full of AC i wonder why AC is on they told that as like humans computers will effect with virus thats why they want cool temperature should on always.. and they showed me the Paint where its a miracle for me.....but i now get laught that opening each paint has taken almost 5 minutes gap :-)..Now i cant wait for 2 more minutes to get my report o/p .....Now all the past funny things revinded once ...thanks

I don't understand this language. Is this a deliberate artistic style or do I have to take some additional english lessions?

...taken to you APTECH...?

...open a paint...?

Lemme try to translate it for you Anton.

<offense removed by moderator>.

(Please note there wasn't any offensive remark, just a little dig on Anton. Let's chill ! -Pushpraj)

Is that better?

Pushpraj

Edited by: Vijay Babu Dudla on Mar 18, 2009 2:13 AM

Edited by: Siegfried Szameitat on Mar 18, 2009 9:40 AM

Edited by: Pushpraj Singh on Mar 18, 2009 2:51 PM

[former_member184657]

I think its about time we call-in Grace Hopper to debug the issue here.

pk

[Former Member]

I was first inpired by computers when i was very small(guess i was 10 years old @ that time)when i used to play DOS games like 'PACMAN', 'DIGDUG' in my dad's PC @ office during his free hours.No hard disks except for 2 8"inches floppy drives one for booting DOS and the other to run the games/applications.The Air Conditioned room and the silent surroundings really made a great impact on my likeness to computers.(But now the scenario changed completely sitting with a group of 20 people in a warm room(as we need a warmer because of the cold weather outside) ).

Later i happened to go to a computer training center where i was really surprised by the colors of 'Windows OS' and ofcourse the Media applications like Winamp playing songs and the PaintBrush.I got the chance to use these applications and i was showing all my creativity in PaintBrush in less time.

These things really inspired me to take up the career in computers.

PS:There is a funny thing behind the Computer Training center.It was during the time when Windows OS was becoming popular and these people were giving training in this OS.The Computer Center was named 'GATES & WINDOWS' with the creator's name & the OS name ,the advertisement board showed the name & the logo of Windows OS.While we were getting training,lot of people used to come enquiring about making Windows,Doors,Gates...for their homes. It became a menace and the owner was forced to take the Board off and give a new name to the center.

so i came into IT just because of DOS games...and now sitting in front of the computers all through my life..

Cheers

Andrew

[Former Member]

why?

it's the fault of coin-op arcades and the good ol' Atari 2600.

[Former Member]

I started almost 11 years ago...When I saw Mortal Kombat for the first time (Ok...That was like 16 years ago)...I knew I wanted to be a programmer...Ok...I actually wanted to developed games...

I started by learning some basic stuff...VB 6.0 and C++....Over the years I moved trough Java, Pascal, PHP, Ruby, ADA and many more...

I enter the SAP realm almost 6 years ago...Funny thing, when I first get asked if I knew what ABAP was...I almost answer "Sure, it's a programming language for text based games..." Thank god I didn't answer that...Even when it's true -;) (ABAP is a small freeware application to develop text based games...)

So....I get into IT to develop games and end developing applications for lazy users...

Greetings,

Blag.

[Former Member]

Hi all

I'm one of those lazy users who often has to write some ABAP stuff to help abappers meet totally unrealistic deadlines imposed by management who hasn't a clue either about the business or even less about the solutions to various business problems that usually occur in day to day processing.

I enjoy the Functional stuff -- not sure about programming but of course I can do it.

I stumbled into this by accident and found it actually paid quite well although now the industry has "matured" ???? a bit it is nothing like as much fun as it used to be.

Management today generally is more concerned with "Change Management", "Unrealistic testing scenarios with old / unreliable data" and "fall back scenarios " which don't actually offer any solution at all.

On line applications don't easily fall into this over managed and controlled change management category.

Non technical management making technical decisions is also a bane of the modern I.T industry.

Whilst I had great fun in it in the past I'd probably choose plumbing or dentistry if I were a youngster these days (and of course these type of jobs CAN'T be outsourced to India or wherever).

I travel often from Europe to the UK - in particular on the Eurostar train service.

You can always tell the I.T contractors on the train - they are the one's with faces that always have a permanent scowl on them whilst they are glued to mobile phones / blackberries / laptops - answering meaningless e-mails etc while the rest of us (functional people etc) are drinking the great free champagne supplied by train company and usually having a great time on the way back home - especially on Fridays.

(OK a bit of a generalisation - but I'm sure regular travellers will know the types I'm referring to here).

Cheers

jimbo

[Former Member]

While you claim to be not affected by it at all, but they way you never forget to mention it in most discussions seems to possibly reflect on the possible fact that you have...?

[Former Member]

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> I travel often from Europe to the UK - in particular on the Eurostar train service.

Now, is UK not in Europe anymore?!

[Former Member]

I think most people know the '"conversational" meaning of Europe here in this particular expression.

Europe in this context means Mainland Continental Europe as oppsed to the UK which technically of course is a part of Europe but not physically (excluding the Tunnel of course) connected to it.

The Eurostar trains from London to Paris and Brussels reach their destinations by using the Channel Tunnel.

There wasn't any other "UK oustide Europe" hidden meaning / agenda in the post.

Perhaps another Functional guy not expressing himself clearly ???

Cheers

jimbo

[Former Member]

I think most people know the '"conversational" meaning of Europe here in this particular expression.

what many British people don't recognize it the fact that this "conversional distinction" between Europe/England is only (exclusively) used by British people.

Only when former PM Blair started to act like Mr. Bush's $%&/*' some "Europeans" thought it might make sense to adopt this conversioanl meaning because there might have been some reality to it

[Former Member]

Hi,

>Now, is UK not in Europe anymore?!

British people are not aware of this geographical fact !

Island mentality and fear of Bruxelles evil EU "government" ?

PS : I've put smileys : I'm not serious !

Olivier

[Benny]

>

> I think most people know the '"conversational"  meaning of Europe here in this particular  expression.
> 
> Europe in this context means Mainland Continental Europe as oppsed  to the UK which technically of course is a part of Europe but not physically (excluding the Tunnel of course)  connected to it.
> 
> Perhaps another Functional guy not expressing himself clearly ???
> 
> jimbo

... and the fact that many UK citizens don't understand themselves as Europeans?

(just teasing:)

Benny

[Former Member]

Benny Schaich-Lebek wrote:
james hawthorne wrote:
I think most people know the '"conversational" meaning of Europe here in this particular expression.
Europe in this context means Mainland Continental Europe as oppsed to the UK which technically of course is a part of Europe but not physically (excluding the Tunnel of course) connected to it.
Perhaps another Functional guy not expressing himself clearly ???
jimbo
... and the fact that many UK citizens don't understand themselves as Europeans?
(just teasing:)
Benny

Well they have got Gibraltar.

But then they play cricket there!

Pushpraj

[Former Member]

Because I'm a Nerd, is the only thing I can do right.

Even tough I'm a beginner in Abap, I consider myself very good in what I do, I can learn programming languages fast and I can translate real life problems into code very easily.

It makes me wonder what would had happened to me if I was born 100 years before or computers never existed.

I'm not good with physical activities, don't have social skills. I think I could have made it into something mathematical related tough.

[ChrisSolomon]

Money, fame, and women.....oh wait....that's why I got into rock and roll. 😃

[Former Member]

Hi Al Lal

I got into IT because I watched too much Start Trek. I was going to save the world, end dudgery and famine, and baiscally be at the heart of building utopia.

20 years later, here I am writing ABAPs to help FI consultants make up for missing mathematical skills.

Anyone else?

Gareth

[Former Member]

And I got into IT because a film trilogy called The Matrix taught me that geeks shall one day be superheroes...

I just found that working with computers came easier to me than anything else. Then I got into college and found a corner deep inside my heart full of love for microchips and 3rd generation languages. I can't imagine me having any other career now where I don't work with computers or programming.

About a year and a half ago finally got plugged into the Matrix (read "SAP") though...The Matrix is everywhere. No wonder they call it "NetWeaver".

Sameer...logging out.