I spent a whole summer in my early teens were my dad paid me to write a DBase IV database/app and to inventory all of their parts (he was a co-owner in a busine

I spent a whole summer in my early teens were my dad paid me to write a DBase IV database/app and to inventory all of their parts (he was a co-owner in a business that serviced CNC machine tools). When I'd get tired of DB 'coding' and data entry I'd go and count parts and write the data in a little notebook to later be entered. Of course it was all a waste because neither he nor the staff ever updated the database when things came and went and it quickly went out of date. I think I was 13 and it was my first introduction to computers being used for business reasons. I was soo over it by the end but now I look back at that summer fondly - I got to go to work with him every day and he took me to lunch and I actually went from a blank PC and copy of DBase to a functional thing myself. I think it put me on my path to computing career and success (next MS VisualBasic and MS Access then 'proper' CS at College etc.).