I have been in the IT field for over ten years, doing desktop support. As a Level II Support Specialist, in order to advance any further, I would have to either go into management or into network administration. I started searching job sites to see what other opportunities there were in the IT field and noticed a lot of programming positions. This started me searching for a degree program. Since I work full time and I have a family, I needed a program that I could complete all my courses online and MATC met my requirements.
Some people have questioned me about going into programming, as most people would move into Network administration. Part of the reason that I chose to go into programming at MATC was because it was available entirely online, but that was not the only reason. When I was young, I would program the computers at home, this was the days of the TRS 80 Model III.
At that time, there were magazines that we would purchase through school and each month would be a new program. I would spend hours typing in the program, then save it to cassette tape, only to find out that there were errors, so it was back through the code to find the error. After spending days working on the program, it was finally error free, and a stick figure ran across the bottom of the screen and jumped hurtles. It felt great when I completed the program, knowing that I had worked hard to solve the issues I came across while programming.
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