However, through a combination of luck and persistence, I did end up going into IT after I graduated from college with a liberal arts degree. I got some formal technical education through professional training courses, and I ended up getting a couple of technical certii cations to show that I at least had some minimal competency in IT. But in the i ve years after I left college in the mid-1990s, the IT i eld exploded. Lots of new workers poured into IT, and like me, most of them did not have a formal education in IT management
