First job: Nothing, knew someone at the company, started part-time. Second job: Knew some people from IRC, still had to show some code. I chose a signature gen

First job: Nothing, knew someone at the company, started part-time. Second job: Knew some people from IRC, still had to show some code. I chose a signature generator (for use in MMO forums) that showed your characters. (PHP, MySQL, gd, reading APIs)