My first gig was a FoxPro contract to find a bug in a very messy report generator, written by a recently divorced, overweight diva in her late 40s. That, my fri

My first gig was a FoxPro contract to find a bug in a very messy report generator, written by a recently divorced, overweight diva in her late 40s. That, my friends, is as close to an immersive reality check as it gets. I was on 3rd year in the Uni and had fluent Pascal, working knowledge of C, could solve Hanoi towers by hand and tell the baud of the modem whistle by ear. Quit in one week, earned $40, didn't manage to make a single change to the code, and acquired a life-long dislike to anything database :)