Taught myself and started programming in 6th grade (around 12) and made a bunch of small games / demos (QBasic, C, C++). I went to college looking for an Englis

Taught myself and started programming in 6th grade (around 12) and made a bunch of small games / demos (QBasic, C, C++). I went to college looking for an English degree (wanted to be a writer) on a full scholarship but graduated with two degrees in Philosophy. Spent about a year temp working for $11/hr hiring contractors and telemarketing for a big home improvement chain. After a year of that, spent about another half a year temping and finally got a job at a university close by managing schedules (SQL, Access, VBA). A couple of months after, I got a call from my sister's old boss who had seen my code from high school and needed a Javascript programmer. Got the job having never written a line of JS, learned JS in two weeks, and worked there for about three years. Moved to SF when they opened up an office out there. Did 6 years of contracting / working various jobs, then moved back east. After coming back east, I got contacted on Stackoverflow careers by my current company, a small bay area company. They indicated they'd be ok with a remote worker and now after a year and a half, they want me to take over all tech operations and be the CTO. Planning to travel around Europe next year while still working here.