Ive had some sort of job since 1974. I started programming games(turn based) on the IBM 3090 during my 14 year stint at Exxon. Got a cool assoc. degree from North Harris community college and was on my way to the fun and frivolity of iBM Midrange(AS 400) programming!! Got an internship in 1994 which turned into a job. Ended up eventually in New Mexico where I do "stuff" with IFS, CSV files, Subfiles and some other cool technology from 10 years back on a Power 8. Now, I'm dinking with C# & XML. That's what I do for work.