Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Dissecking Popular IT Nerds.

Today we got Larry Monta, Monito.

And Larry is a fellow VP of information technology. Hey, Larry, why don't you tell us a little about yourself, sir.

Hi, Mike. Glad to be here. I am an IT leader in Boston area. I currently have a small team working at a property management company.

We handle everything from end user support all the way to network

design for both our building management systems and building security as well as tenant amenities

like fitness centers and conference rooms and a lot of AV and things like that.

So how long have you been doing that with the property company?

And tell me a little more about some of your background.

Where did you get the spark in IT?

Well, I originally wasn't going to be an IT person.

I had my goal in life was to be a teacher.

I was an English major in school and I was into reading and writing about literature and poetry and I really wanted to be a teacher. I got

trained for and got certified to teach high school. Okay. This was in the mid-90s, so 30 years ago.

And back then, there were no jobs for teachers.

Like today, I think there's a shortage of teachers, but.

Right.

Well, and a shortage of pay for teachers, too.

The shortage of pay, too, yeah, yeah.

But a lot of people I knew were trying to be subs in different school systems

and then hope somebody retires or some opening happens and they have a little bit of experience.

And maybe some of the people know them.

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