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title: "Comment by Lee Carver on \"My Journey to Software Engineering\" | Hashnode"
description: "How interesting. What a striking story. It reminds me of my path. When I started college, I had no information about a career in software. I wound up in Physics"
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Comment [My Journey to Software Engineering](https://hashnode.com/posts/my-journey-to-software-engineering/65b6801952016855f28ce4a4)

[Lee Carver](https://hashnode.com/@leeca)

[Feb 3, 2024](https://hashnode.com/posts/my-journey-to-software-engineering/65b6801952016855f28ce4a4/comment/65bec0f4b1c441c3e734a5f2)

How interesting. What a striking story.

It reminds me of my path.

When I started college, I had no information about a career in software. I wound up in Physics rather than Electronics, but with similar results. My classwork cratered in my third year.

The odd part is that my story starts in the 1970’s. Even though I was attending high school in Silicon Valley (San Jose), the idea of writing software professionally never came up.

I switched to Computer Science, and it’s all been uphill since. After graduating in the early 1980’s, I’ve worked at Boeing, Microsoft, Google, and a few others.

It’s been a delight keeping up with the evolving technology. I later completed a Master’s degree in Computer Science. Almost the entire time has been building distributed software systems of ever increasing scale.

[Tebogo Selahle](https://hashnode.com/@tebogoselahle)

[Feb 4, 2024](https://hashnode.com/posts/my-journey-to-software-engineering/65b6801952016855f28ce4a4/comment/65bec0f4b1c441c3e734a5f2#reply-65bed4346e571cc71ea9fcc7)

Thanks, Lee.

Reading your story, it's quite evident that software is where you belong 😄. I'd love to hear/read more about your experiences all these years.