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<p>[QUOTE="DanaB, post: 1336862, member: 10739"]Sorry just a mistyping. I didn't have to muddle thru putting up picture. I'm retired now but was in IT for 33 1/5 yrs. So there's not much I can't figure out quickly. I'm very detail oriented and very tech savvy. Lol! So I definitely ended up in the right field! And I always loved what I did! And as a woman I was one of elite group of women who worked in the exact field of IT that I worked in across the US. So when I went to conferences where people came from around the world. Most of the women I met didn't have my job. But when I would go to conferences with people of my same job, there might be me and one other woman.</p><p>So I was definitely in a field that was dominated usually by men but I forged my own way. Now my job is dying out. But I loved every minute of it!</p><p><br /></p><p>So I case your wondering what I did, I was a high level Mainframe System Programmer which means I installed hardware and software for IBM mainframes running z/OS operating systems. </p><p><br /></p><p>The system that I worked on is being replaced by large servers onsite. And everything is changing platforms. But I can say that I was part of it and enjoyed it many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>IBM is still creating new hardware but I think there are less people using them. More people have gone to using cloud servers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DanaB, post: 1336862, member: 10739"]Sorry just a mistyping. I didn't have to muddle thru putting up picture. I'm retired now but was in IT for 33 1/5 yrs. So there's not much I can't figure out quickly. I'm very detail oriented and very tech savvy. Lol! So I definitely ended up in the right field! And I always loved what I did! And as a woman I was one of elite group of women who worked in the exact field of IT that I worked in across the US. So when I went to conferences where people came from around the world. Most of the women I met didn't have my job. But when I would go to conferences with people of my same job, there might be me and one other woman. So I was definitely in a field that was dominated usually by men but I forged my own way. Now my job is dying out. But I loved every minute of it! So I case your wondering what I did, I was a high level Mainframe System Programmer which means I installed hardware and software for IBM mainframes running z/OS operating systems. The system that I worked on is being replaced by large servers onsite. And everything is changing platforms. But I can say that I was part of it and enjoyed it many years. IBM is still creating new hardware but I think there are less people using them. More people have gone to using cloud servers.[/QUOTE]
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