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I worked for Gulf Oil ( Westbelt Center, Houston) many yrs ago- junior COBOL programmer...in fact so junior that I assisted a gal who was COBOL guru in the mornings and took self paced programming in library with VHS tapes..that could put you to sleep in 10 minutes..
long to short, I never was a programming green beret ( COBOL was unforgiving about commas, etc..I was daydreaming about girls, surfing, fun stuff all the time) ..a few yrs later I moved on to exec recruiting ...but the technical training and learning the terminolgy/jargon was invaluable.. I also made some good friends with the IBM team who worked on site supporting the big mainframes..we also had a DEC system for gasoline sales...
In those days, I dont think I even knew I had a prostate because it was very well mannered and performed like a champ...little did I know !
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Love this! I was so junior that I started by answering calls and making copies. They had run out of training money. Finally an 8 day COBOL course came up. Joined the team on the basis of those 8 days. Needless to say I wasn’t good at it. But I also climbed the exec ranks. As programmers pulled out, I moved up :-). But they paid for my master’s in compsci, which opened up a lot for me. Do companies do that anymore?
Maybe this all is revenge on the Beats/Boomer generations?