I was hired by Loews Corp. to enter their computer programmer training program. This was my first full-time job in the computing profession. The training program was for programming in COBOL and although COBOL was a dying programming language, I accepted the job because I understood that getting experience was more important. I needed to get that first job and Loews was a very good company. I completed the training program much quicker then it was intended and received an early promotion.

As my one year anniversary with the company approached, I was called by a recruiter at AT&T; they wanted to know if I was interested in a position that would allow me to program using Oracle, Unix and C. Although I really liked working at Loews (the company and the people), I felt at the time that the AT&T offer was better in the long run due to the training I would receive. Therefore, I decided to leave Loews and enter AT&T's Initial Designer Program (IDT-C).


Sincerely,