I dropped out of a CS program back in 2002. Since then, I have worked in several different, unrelated fields. In 2019, I circled back to CS/SE while working as a support tech where I learned and utilized a lot of SQL and dealt with JasperReports. Then, a personal "work need" prodded me to write an app in Java. That lead to a department transfer. And now I'm a full-stack dev working with ExtJS, Groovy, and MySQL.