In the year 1995, our family received their first ever computer. It was a Pentium I with a 75 MHz processor, 64 MB ram, a 16x CD-Rom, a 5-gigabyte hard drive, and Windows 95 operating system. I thought it was the coolest thing man has come to know. It had games, and a completely new world called the internet. Not only could you talk to people from all around the world, but also you could watch streaming videos, view pictures, and send e-mails with attached files. It was like the worlds fastest postal service. From that moment forward, I...
computer programmer for a company. However, if you do happen to get a good, reliable job, you can make an average of $68,370 a year if you work for the government, but for non-federal jobs, you can earn an average of $67,690 a year. In 2002, there were about 979,000 jobs in this career, and about 89,000 of those were self-employed.

Overall, I think I would like to spend the rest of my life in this career, it seems like as technology advances, and computers become the standards, there will be a greater and greater need for computer programmers.