Here's my story... Growing up I was always very active. I spent a lot of time outdoors and really enjoyed it. I was planning on becoming a paramedic. I'd grown

Here's my story... Growing up I was always very active. I spent a lot of time outdoors and really enjoyed it. I was planning on becoming a paramedic. I'd grown up with computers and our family had the internet from about 1995. At the age of 17 (I'm 24 now) two things began to happen, I started to play with design and HTML and I also developed a continuous headache... it started one day and I haven't had a moment without it since. So how has the internet changed my life? Since I could no longer be active and couldn't pursue becoming a paramedic I spent more and more time designing websites and very quickly friends started paying me to create websites for them and I realised that I could do it for a living. Now I've spent over five years working in the industry and have worked with people all over the world. I have worked for myself and for a number of creative agencies. I'm currently employed full-time and work in an office, but I'm not sure how much longer I can do that (bright fluorescent lights and the routine can be difficult at times) and so I'm either going to start looking for a startup/work from home job or go back to freelancing. All of this has been made possible because of the internet and I will continue to be able to work full-time because of it.