Well I started in computers when I was 15. My dad was very worried and upset when I quit my first job flipping hamburgers at Wendy's and started programming fu

Well I started in computers when I was 15. My dad was very worried and upset when I quit my first job flipping hamburgers at Wendy's and started programming full time. Over the years he grew tired of his job, he went into management and that was just worse. He said he missed the problem solving of the day to day mechanic job. My mom had went back to school at 40 to get a degree in art and was having a lot of fun with computer graphics and over the years my Dad would tease her about paying the bills. One particularly hard day my Dad handed his keys to his boss and walked out of the shop, never to look back. He ran into a project to help his church with their headquarters website and he said "It can't be any harder than working on a 318". And off they went, from that one to the next, now my mom makes eReader magazines and my dad sits and bashes away at sites and debugs problems. One time he tried to tell me how smart I was and I laughed, I told him I've watched him tear a car down to the studs and find one broken part and put it back together from memory. Never looking at a manual, reading diagrams or even pausing to guess where one of a thousand parts went. He's brilliant, he taught me to break problems down to single variables, test and iterate. Clearly he's way smarter than I am, I'm just trying to mimic him. :-)