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This meme really seems to have legs. If you are interested, here’s my story (I’ll keep it short).

It started for me back in the 6th grade when the junior high schools in my area all had special programs and were competing for new students, especially those from out of the area. Some had arts, other sports, and one had computer programming. It looked interesting and my parents took me by for the open-house night to see what this was all about. As the staff did the “sales pitch� on the parents, the kids were off in the corner playing with the terminal typing in vulgar things just to see what the computer would do. There were a couple of us watching the thing in awe. The next year I was in that school learning BASIC on a time-share terminal. We also had a couple Apple II’s, some graphical workstation (green screen) whose manufacturer I can’t recall, and a robot. I did that for three years before moving on to high school were we used TRS-80’s and a couple IBM PC’s. Another few years there and then I moved on to college were I learned Pascal and Cobol.

Once I got into the working world I was a consultant and drifted around between tech support, programming, or whatever tech work companies needed. I did some work for a doctor’s office were we evaluated an early version of Notes, but can’t recall if it was R1 or R2. I later interviewed at an outsourcing company for a Notes R3 admin position, but they knew I was BS-ing them because I knew nothing about Notes. I then moved to an aerospace company and stumbled into cc:Mail were I did some admin work and later Lotus Notes R3. I then consulted for another company using MS-Mail and again stumbled into their Lotus Notes R4 migration. I was on a small, four-man team that migrated about 12,000 users from MS-Mail to Notes R4 and it all kinda stuck from there. After all, Notes kept coming up and obviously I was meant to work with it, right? I continued consulting for that company through R5 mostly doing admin but dabbled in app dev since that was my background. Since then I have been involved in many migrations using all version of Notes and Domino and have been concentrating on application development for the last several years, but continue to do some admin consultancies from time-to-time.