- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first? Fell into it - the first computer I owned happened to have a basic interpreter in ROM, and at

- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first? Fell into it - the first computer I owned happened to have a basic interpreter in ROM, and at the time a lot of software was published in magazines (you had to type it in by hand), so that started me on my way. - What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more? Being able to code brought me to a lot of places I would have never expected. Things change very rapidly, what you are doing today is completely different then what you will be doing tomorrow, you have to constantly challenge yourself and expand your horizons. I’ve met plenty of people who were really great at version X of framework Y in language Z and five years later they are unemployable because the world moved on while they did not. You need to get beyond versions and frameworks, entire languages came and go out of vogue, the more generalist you are the better you’ll fare. - How did you break that first-job barrier? I worked cheap at my first job, a year later I used my experience to trade up to a position making more the prevailing wage, things took off from there.