<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Kulish, Chris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ckulish@shazam.net">ckulish@shazam.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I also fell into the self trained category, but with Windows NT (3.51 and 4).<br>
And that first Windows job is the one that threw me into Linux.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote></div><br>I also am self trained. My professional computer career started in Best Buy at what is now called the Geek Squad. Then to a PC Repair company that focused on Novel Netware. They had a number of specialists in Novel stuff as well as general PC techs; they hired me to be the guy that did everything else, which was Windows NT and Xenix/Unixware. I got to watch Netware go down the tubes and NT take over. (In large part because of Small Business Server)<br clear="all">
<br>A growing customer hired me full-time in '99 and gave me the opportunity to get a taste of web-development. One thing led to another and here I am. :-)<br><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>