All right, everybody, welcome back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

And today we have John Walker on the show.

He is the IT director at H&M Bay, but you have a special talent as well. You deal with,

not only are you a software dev guy, but you also deal with software development guys. So welcome

to the show, John. Thank you. Yeah. And I don't know this yet, but I'm asking you right now, and normally I talk about this first, but I never asked you last time, how did you get started in this technology world anyways to begin with? And or what was your first computer or experience with technology of any sort?

Well, that's actually a good story. I, all through high school, I was college prep, but I had no idea what I wanted to do.

I wasn't really that enthralled with math.

I just really didn't have a clue what I wanted to do.

And the one thing I was good at or thought I was good at was arguing

with people debating things, using logic against other people. But the only thing that made,

the only thing that made sense for that was a lawyer. And I didn't know. everyone talked terrible about lawyers back in the late 70s,

they still do, but it's really bad. And then, and then, and then, and then on top of that,

you know, I came from a fairly low-income family, the, the, the prospects of borrowing all that money to become a lawyer, just was really

daunting. So I had really no idea. And then my father, who had a fifth grade education, he had to

quit to school to work on the farm when his father came down with polio and um he read the readers digest

which was a monthly thing that came out like a almost a book of a magazine but it was pretty thick

and he read it cover to cover every month and in there he read this article about software developers and how in 1979,

when I was going to graduate high school, and this was in 78, that there were going to be two jobs

for every programmer that came out, and that it was going to be a high demand, and these people

were going to make tons of money and

and he's like uh you ever thought about that and i'm like no i've never seen a computer

don't know anything about any computers

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