My passion for programming peaked in middle school. I'd pull all nighters building cool little apps in Visual Basic. I was just amazed I could build real apps t

My passion for programming peaked in middle school. I'd pull all nighters building cool little apps in Visual Basic. I was just amazed I could build real apps that kinda behaved like other commercial apps. Few months into high school, I started getting requests for contract work on RentACoder, a site launched by code sharing site planet-source-code(where I had a lot of submissions). I still loved programming. But overtime, I became a lot more conscious of the $ amount and optimizing for making a business versus learning programming. Nothing bad, but my passion just diverged significantly. I went from being the guy who told his first dozen clients he didn't care for the money and probably worked at a dollar an hour for many of the initial contract projects...to a guy who was hiring full-time dudes offshore so I could maximize rev.