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>>I took "Intro to Programming" as an elective in 1975.
>I was set to teach high school English when someone told me that a large company was hiring trainee programmers.
>I thought programmers wrote TV scripts and the salary was good, so I applied.
>They hired me and I discovered the career that I'd love.

In the vocational school where I was teaching in my previous career, there was a position of „programer“. That's what it said on the door. She was clerk tasked with tracking the curricula of the part time students and various extra course attendees, as in 'who goes by which program and which exams are required'.