My degree is in history, too (with a minor in political science). I worked my way through school first as a part-time secretary at the state prison and then as a medical transcriptionist. Once I graduated I quit my job doing transcription to go be a nanny (horrifying my father to no end - this is what I went to college for?). After a year as a nanny I went back to transcription, just to earn money while I was trying to decide what to do with my life. Three years later the IT guy for our department took another job and recommended me to replace him (I was always futzing around with the computer and had shown an aptitude for it). So I fell into IT through the back door, as it were. My company sent me to some training courses, but mostly I learned on my own.
Someday I'm going to figure out what I really want to do when I grow up. And then I'll do it.
