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Loved this, Terry! Same Tony who'd taught you how to use a spreadsheet, right? Priceless! 🙌

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Thanks Rebecca. That's right!

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Nov 6·edited Nov 6Liked by Terry Freedman

Hah, great! Great story. (edit: double "great". How about: "Excellent story.")

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Thank you, Sire.

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And the rest...as they say...is yourstory. :) You must have made quite the impression.

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Thanks, Elizabeth. People helpping me you mean? I think people were generally kinder then, but maybe I'm wearing rose-tinted spectacles.

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I mean your ability to help them. :)

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Oh I see. No, that was my job. I was something called an ICT advisor for the borough, specialising in secondary (high) schools. I mean, obviously they selected the right person for the job in the first place… Chortle!

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Obvs.

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Interesting stuff. My first word processor was an amstrad, which was a nightmare but cheap. I remember having to do those coding bits and losing my thread. What was I saying? Oh yes, my theory on the renewed interest in economics is simply that people want to understand why they are being squeezed economically and what they can do in any way to alleviate this on a micro level

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LOL. Amstrads were very popular, but they were bloody ugly in my opinion and used the wrong-sized disks. I'm sure you're right about the popularity of Economics.

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Sadly I only know insulting ones thrown at me in another life. DILLIGAF and GYGAFO. The first is "do I look like I give a..." And the other is "get your gear and **** off". Ah, rock and roll, eh?

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Great stuff. I'd not heard of those acronyms. The closest one is JFDI, or just f---ing do it. Chortle.

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I enjoyed the in those days the computer programs were not WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). " Londoners have such a unique set of quirk-isms!

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LOL. Thanks, Jill. I thought WYSIWYG was a more geographically general term. I enjoyed old-fashioned programming too, like the old Basic. :-)

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There are definitely similarities in our backgrounds. Interesting about only women being allowed to do word processing. I gather they were the equivalent of the ‘typing pool’. My degree in pure maths was considered inappropriate for an IT role at one stage, so I joined the research section and did all their computing tasks until someone in IT asked them why they weren’t getting any requests any more. ‘Beth does it all. We don’t need you.’ They realised they’d better employ me after all.

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Thanks, Beth. No, they were all learning computer programming. I taught myself in the end. Interesting what you say about your maths degree being considered inappropriate. In England, the first teachers of commputer programming were all drawn from the maths department in schools. Excellent story about how you ended up in the IT section after all. Well done!

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ECONOMICS ?

That course ALMOST cured my insomnia ! I need to audit some courses to possibly curing it.....

Gettin' sleepy..... drowsy..... 😪😵 Nighty night......

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LOL. That's cos it obviously wasn't taught properly. My students used to get really excited in my lessons. Sad really, come to think about it. 😂

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This professor also put his lessons on VIDEOTAPE. I expected more classes that were engaging after taking Forensic Anthropology, NOTHING beats handling skulls & disarticulated spinal columns..... Gives meaning to the phrase " you NEVER forget your first one ". I was a PUSHOVER after that.....Forensics' SIREN SONG.

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OMG thanks for sharing, I think. 😂

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The professor enjoyed PIMPING OUT FORENSICS. ONE can be a Goth & not draw attention attending classes, I'm assuming.....

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I wouldn't know 🤣

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Nov 4Liked by Terry Freedman

Great story!

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Thanks, Sharron! Glad you liked it.

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