[aldousd666]

I was officially employed as a help-desk tech while I was going to school for CS. I wrote some internal-only software we used to track all of the installed software on all the hosts in our network and catalog them to a database. This was in 2000, so there weren't very many software packages that you could run like that would crawl the entire org and catalog the software installed without installing an agent on people's systems. This worked that way, and my VP came and asked me to help a team package it up so we could sell it as another product from my company. Looking back, what I wrote was crap, but boy was that a boost in the breeches, if you know what I mean.