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I went through a couple of tech college programs after 4 years in Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club.

My first round involved television production which combined class and tons of hands on with the local PBS regional station where I hung out as much as possible. After graduation, I lucked out and got a job at the headquarters here in Columbia. As far as anyone could work out, I was the only grad of Teleproduction to ever get a job at SCETV headquarters right out of school and one a few ever known to have ever worked there at all. I started in studio production and later moved to Engineering.

It was in my last few years in the sort of fun but low paying world of public broadcasting I started looking for something else to move into that paid better. I opted for a short series of classes in computer repair at Midlands Tech.

I got my A+ and a couple of MS certs after getting through it. I am glad I did that. After suffering some ups and downs over the years due to this wonderful economy doing a lot of contracting which some was quite good, I got one that led to a full time job paying a little over 50K.