As my nephew Adriano Juras said, “It is not necessary to know German to understand this picture” and ops… I just remembered that I need to pass the first lesson of my German Course. Why do I decide to learn German? Well, it is a large history but I’m going to try to summarize it because I have no intention to write a book right now.
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I studied Information Technology and, like most of the people, I didn’t get a job in my area. My first job was as a trainee in the exchange area at Banco do Brasil in São Paulo, Brazil. So, as my bank experience was the only experience that I could put on my curriculum, guess what? I got a job at Bank of Boston in São Paulo, specifically at exchange area. I tried to work in my area in this same bank but I didn’t get the opportunity. Never mind, I’m going to skip this part. Sometime later, I got the opportunity to design some HTML pages of “SP Guia”, a guide of São Paulo’s City. HTML was just in the beginning, it was pure HTML code with some animated gifs. I remember that I used to use HotDog Web Editor and Gif Animator software for developing web pages.
Every Sundays I used to buy the newspapers looking for a job and one day I finally found a vacant as a trainee at Sisdam Technology, an argentine company that was opening a branch in São Paulo. I remember that I took to the job interview a portfolio with the HTML pages I had developed and one day, Pablo Born, Sisdam’s Director, confessed me that hired me because of that portfolio (probably my job interview was not so good). Sisdam trained us on Lotus Notes Administration and Lotus Notes Development and with the support of Argentine Team we started developing and maintaining Lotus Notes applications. I really have very good memories of that time; I admit that I am a Lotus Notes fan.
After working at Sisdam, I worked at Hospital Albert Einstein, also with Lotus Notes but they didn’t use Lotus Notes as an e-mail solution and there were rumors that all Lotus Notes applications would be migrated to others solutions. So, after working with Lotus Notes for 4 years, they decided to transfer me to a new IT area that would be responsible for Internet and, in 2004 SAP R/3 and SAP Portal were implemented at Hospital Albert Einstein.
In 2005, after thinking and thinking, my husband and I decided to live in Spain. Already in Seville I got a job at Coritel by my experience with SAP Portal. But, there were much more projects for Abap than SAP Portal and consequently, I had to learn abap, which in my opinion, is different of everything I had seen before. One day, a friend of mine told me that would be great if we could read all the code comments written in German so, I thought: “that’s it, why not” and looking at this SLIN Screen of a CRM environment which language logon is Spanish, just encourage me and reinforce the idea of learning German.
I finish this post with the phrase: I need to start, I need to start!
Bye till the next post.
Bye till the next post.
