[saluki]

I always enjoyed programming, was fascinated with startups, technology and SaaS so it was something interesting so I started building websites and then web applications while working as a civil engineer.

I enjoyed civil engineering too, but there wasn't a lot of room for innovation, lots of things are cookie cutter in civil engineering, there is some room for creativity but not like developing web applications.

I did develop two software add-ons for Civil 3D that were released by Autodesk that gave me a taste of software development.

Oh yeah there was also the slight economic collapse where all development and construction stopped, civil engineering firms cut 75% of their staff and salaries stalled and shrank. So it wasn't really a choice I was just lucky I had the skills in place to make the leap over to software development. It wasn't easy but I'm much happier as a developer.