Hi again Hckynut:
Thanks for your kind words regarding my "great accomplishments" in my youth!! You did the same as I am sure, as you wrote, that many others on this BB also have and you wish they would tell us about. Unfortunately, many individuals think telling "their stories" is an egotistical thing to do and they shy away from it. I find it interesting as I don't think there's anything wrong with getting to know someone better, due to their life experiences. However, there are those who resent and criticize those kinds of posts. So I doubt we will see anything like that other than the few who have already written a little bit about their experiences "back in the day," as they say.
I was never good at electronics, sound systems, and some of the other things you mentioned, which might sound odd because one may think the two should go together . . . computers vis-à-vis TVs, stereos. To me, they are two completely different types of technologies. Although I used to be able to set up a hardware computer system easily, my physical condition prevents that these days. But I was never able to set up a sound/stereo system, which is why I love my Bose!! Just plug it in . . . thumbs up for me!!
Just to bring you completely up to date, I am still good friends with several gals from my old workplace, and they tell me that although the client/word processing database I set up there is still being used, on-line tax return programs like TurboTax, etc., have reduced the firm's tax return business by half and getting less and less every year. So nothing lasts forever, which has always been my mantra. Actually the partners are all as old as dirt as I am, so I can't imagine the firm will continue on as big as it has been for too much longer. There are one or two younger partners now who may keep it going as a smaller enterprise, but the older guys will be gone in one way or another. It's November, in more ways than one.
Have a good day!
Formerly Ford1224
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 1986