Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Underserve, the podcast for the rest of the

tech industry. I'm your host Andrew

Jelina. With me in studio today is Bill Scott an IOT software architect from

Dover Corporation. Bill, welcome to the show. Thanks, Andrew.

It's nice to see people in person.

Yeah, it really is.

So tell me what got you interested in software and coding

and hardware way back in the day.

Yeah, so I've been doing this a while.

Once you hit 50, you realize you've been doing this a long time.

I sort of fell into it.

I went to Blackstone Valley Tech, which around here in Boston is a technical school and we had the first software

electronics concentration program. So half the time was programming, half the time was electronics.

So they taught us how to feed tape into a mini computer and they had an AS 400 and

we learned basic and stuff like that.

And then the other program was electronics

who learned how to solder and create boards

and flashing, happy faces, stuff like that.

And then I left after a year because I sort of believed the idea that we had to go to college if you wanted to go somewhere in life so little did I know I left and I go back to the regular school and then I went to UMass Amherst and almost everybody that was in

Valley Tech weather in my engineering classes you know so you don't always have to

believe those ideas that you know I think tech schools really get a bad rap I think they're

underrated really underrated especially when you pay a plumber now over a hundred

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