[larryjohnson]

My uncle Larry went from adding machine salesman in the 30s to a Vice President of something. My father wanted me, a math major to work for IBM.
I CERTAINLY Hd a good reference and IBM was my only senior interview.I was AFROTC and went in for 22 years. My cousin Larry did work for IBM.
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[USS Alaska]

My uncle Larry went from adding machine salesman in the 30s to a Vice President of something.

I started selling adding machines for The Burroughs Corp in the 60s, and sold computer equipment and software systems for multiple companies for over 40 years.

In the early 2000s the company I sold for was bought by IBM and I stayed with them for about a year.

I had to quit because I could not stand the rules and multiple layers of both management and corporate bullshit.

I understood why a corporation with over 300,000 employees had to have layers of lawyers and managers, but I could not adapt to the maze of muddle managers, that were in place to keep the mix churning {almost like a white collar union}.