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    <p>I'm not sure what your situation is but I can give you an idea of my background and how I got into it (A history of the past like 15 or 16 years).</p> <p>When I was in Jr. High I got a Mac Plus for Christmas one year. It came from some engineer and he had some cool programs on it: HyperCard and Basic were my favorites. You can kind of imagine HyperCard as being a kind of pre-web web-like programming environment. You could draw lil power point like slides with graphics and then script them. So I made a point and click adventure and got some cheesy animation working. I then coded a text based Jurassic Park game in basic. None of this was terribly complex but it got me dabbling in programming and helped me learn about basic if-then structure.</p> <p>In high school I made programs for the TI-82 graphing calculators. Nothing fancy, I wasn't one of those doing tetris clones or anything, but I made some programs to help me in my math classes.</p> <p>One of my first jobs out of high school was in customer service at AT&amp;T Wireless. While I was there I was always trying to make something cool in Excel to show off to people so I could get some attention and get off those damn phones. The first thing I made in Excel that garnered attention was a supply ordering system that used an Excel spreadsheet located on a network share as a database (haha I hate when people do that now). I wrote the whole thing in VBA and created win forms inside of the Excel program to make the program look more like a real program. It even had some cheesy encryption to prevent anyone from circumventing my forms and just fiddling with the Excel data itself.</p> <p>That led to one of the supervisors securing me access to one of the local Cold Fusion web servers and DB's so that I could port my Excel app to the web. I hated HTML. Absolutely hated it. I forced myself to play with it and got the project done. Won a trip to Hawaii for it.</p> <p>Finally I left AT&amp;T because I wasn't going anywhere (I had been promoted to internal tech support but after four years of being there that wasn't quite enough). I found a web developer job at a super small company getting paid a pittance (like 28k or something). While there I had began to learn C# (I bought the Deitel &amp; Deitel C# book in a moment of ambition). I chose C# because I naively thought it was just the next version of C++ and because I saw a lot of jobs for it. SO after a few months of working at this small company, I found a C# gig at a company with like a thousand employees and the rest as they say is history.</p> <p>(Oh yeah, somewhere in there I also took a C++ class at a local community college)</p> <p>I've continued that pattern of self-driven learning throughout my career and it's made me very successful at what I do. I'm now moving into more computer science oriented learning and my career is changing to reflect that. Just dig your heels in and learn by doing projects you enjoy all the while and your career will always be on the rise.</p>
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