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by zaphar 4073 days ago
Software Engineer

When I was 10 years old I was going to be a biologist. When I was 12 years old I was going to be a microbiologist. When I was 15 years old I was going to be a Virus Hunter for the CDC.

Then I went to college and got a glimpse of what that career choice would actually look like as opposed to what I had imagined it would look like. I decided I didn't want that after all.

Programming had just always been a hobby. At some point though I started making money doing it and realized that I could be happy doing this for the rest of my life. The rest as they say is history.