home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: tiger.avana.net!root
- From: fastrac@avana.net (Tim Owensby)
- Newsgroups: alt.computer.consultants,comp.edu,comp.lang.basic.misc,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Info on being a Systems Programmer/Analyst?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 02:16:38 GMT
- Organization: FASTRAC Software, Inc.
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4it2i6$ump@tiger.avana.net>
- References: <3150eada.14098156@News.why.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: atl153.avana.net
- X-Newsreader: News for Windows NT X1.0-78
-
- In article <3150eada.14098156@News.why.net>
- Stuart.Johnston@Chrysalis.org wrote:
-
- > I am currently a Junior in High School and have been
- > considering becoming a Systems Programmer/Analyst. I've read books
- <snip>
- > Sincere thanks,
- > Stuart Johnston
-
- Math related skills are essential. The basic skill you learn from math is
- problem solving. If you do not like word problems, vague fill-in-the-pieces puzzles
- and inference problems you will not like your fate as a programmer.
-
- I have been in this industry a number of years, at various levels in the developer
- food chain. I can tell you that it is a great deal of very hard, concentrated, fun, exciting
- work. There is nothing more thrilling, on a professional level, than to see an idea come
- to market and be successful.
-
- The income range is very wide. If you are good and can produce good quality code in
- reasonable time frames the upper end of income is almost unlimited. By good quality
- code I mean code that solves a stated problem efficiently and with few, if any MFU's.
-
- The other area that effects your income is the platform and market you are in. I doubt that
- there are many people making a living writing accounting packages for CPM machines.
-
- Tim Owensby
- President/CEO
- FASTRAC Software, Inc.
-
-