Pretty much everyone has used Microsoft Word at one time or another. Everyone has used it, from typing up this essay to doing genealogy research or writing a letter to a friend. But who created the program? Sure, Microsoft did, but who in Microsoft helped make it? Well it was a collection of computer programmers, beta testers, and software engineers. Why being a software engineer appeals most to me is that it requires the broadest knowledge of different material and has the greatest area for advancement.

First, what do software engineers do? Software engineers have a wide range of duties to do on a job, from researching what a customer would want in a program, help in the designing and developing of a program, to programming and testing the program so that it works as designed. Other duties include train professional staff so they understand the programs and...