Most people do. The luck isn't that, like many here, I got into computers at an early age, had the free time to teach myself, and was smart enough to. I would l

Most people do. The luck isn't that, like many here, I got into computers at an early age, had the free time to teach myself, and was smart enough to. I would likely be programming anyway and so would many here. The luck is that there are good paying jobs in computers. It doesn't have to be this way and in fact, in most of the world, it's not. Programming jobs could be paying a median wage. They could be few and far between. That's where I and others like me got lucky, IMO.