Transit – Responsible

Why is it responsible for me being where I am today?

Well there are 2 reasons.  The first reason is that I learned a lot and did a lot of growing up.  It’s a pretty unique place and while it’s not perfect if you are ambitious transit has the ability to do a lot for you.  In my previous post “Transit – The Good” I summarized this.  The second reason is because transit is where I learned what my calling was.  I interview and didn’t get the MIS assistant position in January of 2005.  I still feel I was the most qualified of all the cantidates, but I didn’t necessarily represent that well enough in the interview, so I’ll give Adam a pass.  But this is not what’s important, what’s imortant is that preparing for this interview did something to me.  It made me realize that working in technology was what I wanted to do.  I had always kinda wanted to do it, I was always good with computers, and I was always good with logic.  But I was a little scared and I was a little unsure if I was really of the caliber of a computer programmer or a system administrator.  The preparation for this interview helped re-awaken my love of computers.  This interview is what inspired me to go back to school and try and get into the CS major.  Then when the job came up again I interviewed, got it, and ran with it.  The 2 years I spent working in MIS are also responsible for me being where I am.  I can honesly say after spending a year at a real software company that the lessons and the growing pains from 2 years there prepared me well for working in the industry writing software.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my 3 part 2346 word explanation of what transit has meant to me.  It was a big part of my life for 4 years, and ended up being responsible for so much more than any other single entity (not named Vanessa) in college.  Times wern’t always good, but as a whole transit had a profoundly positive effect on me.

Thank You Umass Tansit Service.