Dropped out of high school after grade 10 (ie missed final two years) Went to a technical college (TAFE), studied “web design” for a year, transferred to a clo

Dropped out of high school after grade 10 (ie missed final two years) Went to a technical college (TAFE), studied “web design” for a year, transferred to a closer campus and changed to do Diploma of Network Engineering. Started making php web apps for family/friends in my own time (~4 years total) Graduated, got a job working at TAFE in IT department doing support and then got involved in more advanced stuff, Novell eDir, workstation migrations from ~200km away over ISDN, etc (~3-4 years) Landed a contract gig with Aussie federal government department (moved interstate at ~6 days notice!) doing front end web development with zero commercial experience. (~2 years) Moved to Melbourne with nothing lined up; accepted a contract at a Telco doing more front end dev on a never-launched gumtree-wannabe. Probably the worst place I’ve ever worked. During this period, I started working on the earliest piece of software that I still maintain today (A php library/framework, that is nearly unrecognisable from the early versions) (~6 months) A few odd freelance jobs for smaller companies, mostly focusing on php, with some front end still (~12 months) Started contracting with a full-remote “Agency” type company, mostly doing php and JavaScript, eventually doing some infra/ops. (~4 years) Went back to freelance work, focussing a lot on infra/ops, dev tooling and dev mentoring/leadership. (~7 years) Apologies if anything is hard to read or has typos, writing on a phone.