My first job was at a national laboratory where I wrote an application to extract data from text files using FORTRAN. I started when I was 17 - it was a school

My first job was at a national laboratory where I wrote an application to extract data from text files using FORTRAN. I started when I was 17 - it was a school program where I went to class in the morning and went to work in the afternoon. Of course, knowing what I know now, the fact that I was using FORTRAN for data mining is rather embarrassing, but I was young and stupid, and my boss gave me a bunch of functions to help out, so that's what I did.