[pwason]

Started programming PDP-11 Basic in freshman year of high school, kept going (Applesoft BASIC, 6502 ML, QBasic, a little C, MS-DOS batch) up as a hobby through college, first job out of college was an operations job, but then the programmer quit and I took up the slack (PL/1), went into computer sales (Amiga; learned ARexx, CanDo, more C), worked at a couple of business consulting jobs (more scripting stuff, MS-DOS/Win, Mac, AIX), started working with a friend doing desktop database (PAL) one-offs for various clients, started doing webdev (when the web showed up), transitioned to Delphi for the desktop stuff, then Delphi generating Perl, HTML, Javascript websites, sold the co. for 45M, out of work for a few years (kept doing more advanced web stuff, learning better javascript, html, css, related junk), now work in IT and do webdev on the side.

BTW, I have a BA Humanities :)