[secretsatan]

I was a software developer before, but in an obscure language and I was taught on the job, no CS degree, and there are plenty of gaps in my knowledge.

I had a little side project going, I didn't want to spend money on the software normally used and started figuring out how to write my own, kept me out of trouble in the evenings, but then I got made redundant. I'd pretty much lost all interest in my career field, and getting a new job in the same field would have meant moving to another country. I had enough.

So I just threw myself into learning and developing software that I could publish, tried to make money, unfortunately that did not work out, but I did publish apps, and even got some fans of it, but it wasn't paying the bills. However a published pretty complex app is a good referral when applying for jobs. I eventually landed a job doing something much more up to date and interesting,

I still kept a new passion for just writing random apps on the side, wrote one to interface with software my employer makes to do something I was interested in then started seeing it could be really useful to them, and started pushing it to them, now I work on that full time with a team.