between 1966 when I graduated High school in Santa Fe, New mexico from a private school there and 1968:

I learned in Glendale College where I lived then with my parents the Fortran Computer Language and the COBOL computer language (both of which are still used because they run faster than today's languages. So, if you are running complicated things you want these languages to finish your work faster.

From learning how to program in these languages and learning how to operate IBM keypunch machines and learning how to operate computers like the IBM 1620 and IBM 360 computers I got my first job in data processing working for the Glendale Board of Education processing IQ tests on computers then around 1967 and I worked there until 1968 some time when I got a job working automating a warehouse by putting everything on punch cards so when they picked up an item for shipping they also pulled a card then to automate everything then. It was for a drug store warehouse called Foremost Mckesson in North Hollywood then. Next I worked for Reynolds and Reynolds who did automated Accounting for most car dealerships in California on millions of dollars of mainframes and IBM periferals. However, by 1969 I realized I couldn't really do what I wanted to in the field because we were 50 to 75 years away from being able to do that.