I was working in the finance division of Burdines Department Stores when the IBM-PC was announced. I had been working with a System 34 and immediately saw my future. This was around 1981.
Here is what I was doing at the time.
The head of our DP department said there would be no need for PC’s because you couldn’t do anything with them. So I left
Within months, I was working for the largest Independent PC store in the country and balls-deep into the world of PCs.
It was the biggest open door to opportunity that I’ve seen in my whole life. I knew there was a huge future, and I was about to get in on the ground floor at the very beginning. I started with CPM on Apple II and DOS 1.0 on the PC.
They weren’t ubiquitous back then. I learned more by fixing them and figuring out why they crashed than almost everyone I knew.
The other decision I view as one of my best is to not take the COVID-19 jab. While everyone pressured me to get it, I held my ground. To this day, I don’t regret it and never have to worry about what they put into it. You can never get un-jabbed.
Delusions of Adequacy 