Definitely not as impressive as some of the top rated on here, but I have a few stories. -- One year in college I worked for a storage company. They were shor

Definitely not as impressive as some of the top rated on here, but I have a few stories. -- One year in college I worked for a storage company. They were short on drivers so I volunteered (having driven vans and trucks in my last job). Thing was, they needed me to be over 21 (or 25?) for their insurance. Nobody was, so I just got in the van and started driving. A few days later, they had me take their drivers test, and then I got to be a driver anyways (with the raise that went with). I got to drive around and do house calls while most of my coworkers had to move stuff into/out of dorms all day. -- Rather than write a lot of networking code to give a program remote-control abilities, we decided to install the program locally and VNC into the remote machines, and use Skype to get sound from them. -- Recently, I discovered Git and have pretty much fallen for it. My work still uses svn (mostly), so I've been using git-svn. I went to my supervisor and told him I thought we'd be better of using git (since we're trying to use svn that way anyways), and it turns out, he had a budget that needed to be used by the end of this fiscal year, which I was able to use to teach myself more of Git. That budget's used up now, so I'll have to do the rest on my own time, but he's said if I can make a compelling enough case, future projects will use git. I've also become the guy my coworkers call for help with svn, so whenever I can (without being annoying), I try to point out how git is better for X.