I had a similar story. A search for internet access in high school (which wasn't common in mid-1990s Australia) led me to working for a ISP, then working for a

I had a similar story. A search for internet access in high school (which wasn't common in mid-1990s Australia) led me to working for a ISP, then working for a company that ported bits of NEXTSTEP to other Unices, then interning at Apple, then starting my own company. I was cheap labour but I was surrounded by great people who were happy to answer my endless questions. I hope I can do that for someone else someday. Amusing anecdote from first ISP job: you only ever rm -rf the root filesystem on your employer's sole server (with no backup) once in your life. Fortunately it ate had only chewed through most of the operating system before I called them in a panic, and we were able to power the machine down. They were very understanding and I spent the next day or two (in the middle of final year of high school) cleaning up the mess. They did buy a tape drive after that! (The cause was a Perl script that concatenated two strings which owing to a typo happened to be empty.)