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Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Lucky you. Bad luck for me, being 1st child of a 5 children family, I had to stop the hight school and start working since my age of 15, to be give the opportunity to the upcoming boys of the family to be able to study. Bad, but true fact in Greece of 1970, that women are just to serve family. But I had the curage to finish hight school when I was 40. What I know (in programming and Englihs language) are things that I self-teached by reading books and I can say that since 1984 that for first time I started programming in dBase II, I've lots of projects around.

Mary

No luck here... I ran away from home when I was 16, got a job and finished high school on my own in a city 200 miles from my parents. Worked to pay for college , dropping out whenever I ran out of money, back in again when I had saved enough for a semester or two. It took me 6 years to get a 4-year undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering... worked 10 years in research and development at Cummins Engine, then quit my job and went back to get a masters in computer science at age 35.

btw: I taught college programing for a while to help get me thru grad school - your coding is pretty good... especially for being self-taught - kudos to you.

Ok, enuff slobbering over each other.... back to "Classifieds"... sorry for the interuption folks.


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