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CollegeI am studying at the college of Staten Island for an undergraduate information processing system acquaintance degree. Combined with my microcomputer applications diploma from St.Catherines Business College in Ontario, this will qualify me for work in the line world. I am skilled in computer applications, programming, hardwareconfiguring, connection, repair, and training non-computer personnel.I graduated from St. Catherines in 1996, but did not seek work. Instead, Igot married, settled with my husband in New York, and began to extend myeducation. I came to CSI hoping to learn more sophisticated programming andhardware design in order to expand my knowledge of commercial softwareapplication that I learn in Business College. I feel that with thisknowledge, I would be better prepared to obtain the type of employment I wouldbe seeking in the future.After graduation, I want to find employment at a small, dynamic confederation thatis just setting up its computer system, or red esigning or reconfiguring itssystem. At a large company, I believe, I would find myself part of a largecomputer staff, doing the same few things over and over. On the transactionscale, in a large company, one works on the computer aspects of a small cornerof that company, and it is hard to get a sense of the business purposes ofones work. I may be quite unhappy in a small corner of a large company,sitting in front of a screen all day entering codes and setting up scripts,and interacting with very few people. I would probably not stay in such a jobvery long.At a small company, on the other hand, one ends up doing a little bit ofeverything. One learns not whole about the computer aspects of the company, but level about its business operations. Insofar as I would someday like to go intocomputer consulting, or even some sort of entrepreneurship of my own, suchsmall business experience is much more valuable, I believe. It would be especially nice if it was a small company that was u sing computersin a creative way. A small graphics design, advertising, or architectural firmwould have fascinating, cutting edge uses of computers in opthalmic design. Forexample, an architectural firm would use computers to design buildings,colleges and houses. An advertising agency would use this technology todesign their newspaper advertisements and television commercials.The ideal thing for me in such a company would be to start out as an assistantto the person in charge of all the information technology, and eventually,