This was probably my first real job/contract out of college. I was a VB script/web developer and landed a part time gig at this one man wealth advisory firm who

This was probably my first real job/contract out of college. I was a VB script/web developer and landed a part time gig at this one man wealth advisory firm who wanted to build a side business from processing charitable donation online (back in 2001). The owner was a very impatient youngish founder who new just enough about HTML/CSS to have the dangerous notion that he new something about programming. Additionally he was obsessive compulsive to the point where when he saw that different browsers didn't render the HTML/CSS EXACTLY identically in all cases, he had me redo ALL text on the site as IMAGES!..because those would look the same regardless of what the browser supported. Now, the payment processing part. Since he was a cheap bastard and didn't want me spending any time on actually versioning, managing code, doing deployments, testing etc....we only had one development/test environment: PRODUCTION. Yup, I'd connect my trusty VisualStudio IDE directly to the file system on the production IIS webserver and code away. Whatever I had coded when I hit save...was live. No issue. Since we had no monitoring, logs, analytics or anything else unnecessary like that, he never could tell how many live transactions were lost because I had forgotten to close some tag, looped once too many times, mistakenly truncated some part of a card number, swapped the first name and the last name field accidentally or mistakenly told the payment gateway to CREDIT rather than DEBIT the charity's account (yes, that one did happen...and he did notice). I would come home a nervous wreck every day just wondering what kind of pissed off customer calls I'd be hearing about the next day for something I had done that day.