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From: ins_ampm@jhunix.UUCP (Michael P McKenna)
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Subject: Re: the "programmer" title
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Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 17:26:21 EST
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In article <1711@ittatc.ATC.ITT.UUCP> yoda@ittatc.UUCP writes:

>	So the reason I don't say "programmer" is that I fear that someone
>will think I dropped out of high school, couldn't find a job, so I went to
>"COMPUTER TRAINING INSTITUTE" for 6 months, and... voila!  Can anybody
>relate to that?

     YES!!!

     When I was an undergraduate, studying mathematics and computer science,
a friend (acquaintance?) of my mother's once remarked that she didn't
see why people interested in computers went to college when they could
just go to one of these Training Schools.  Wish I had known that, could
have saved a lot of money and time :-)

     A friend of mine who was interested in studying computers was
dissuaded by his father (a banker) who apparently thought his son was
"too good" for "that type of job."

     Anyway, I don't know how widespread this attitude toward "programmers"
is, but it clearly exists.  The fact that people who feel like this don't
know what the are talking (thinking?) about doesn't really help.

                                                        Dwight S. Wilson

                                 (I'm posting this on a friend's account)