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Entered my community college without any ambitions and had a 0.9 GPA my first semester. My major was undeclared and chose a random assortment of classes, passing my intro to psych class with a B and failing all other with an F. Ended up getting arrested for drug possessions charges. After that turned my GPA (3.92) around graduating from my community college with an AA in Liberal Arts: Humanities degree.

Transferred to another college pursuing a BA in Philosophy. Out of curiosity and to challenge myself decided to take Calculus (I was good at math in HS, but stopped after pre-calc). I did pretty well and enjoyed it. Decided to pursue some more math classes. Also took an intro to programming class since I was somewhat curious in this. Realizing I had a growing debt, $0 to my name, and no real career plans at this point I decided to pursue Math and eventually become an Actuary.

However after a couple more CS classes it was apparent this is what I wanted to be doing with my life, and it depressed me to read about what career advancements in being an actuary actually entailed. Quickly crammed in some more CS classes and graduated with a BS in Math, BA in CS and a minor in Philosophy.

My "decision" to join the tech industry was purely happenstance. I do not believe if it weren't for a series of events happening around those times in a quick succession I would have ended up here.

Edit: Added some detail regarding my original course selection.