Great story. I feel like many of us from the 90s have similar stories. I was a CS undergrad, and was introduced to someone who needed a software person. Got hi

Great story. I feel like many of us from the 90s have similar stories. I was a CS undergrad, and was introduced to someone who needed a software person. Got hired at $8/hour part time to write VB, Access, and MSSQL software - none of which I had ever touched. Same deal, either I figure it out or he would let me go. Couple weeks later my boss came in, loosely described an application, and then asked if I could have something demoable in 2 hours. He had a client meeting and need to show something to get partial payment. Got it done and almost immediately got a raise to $12/hour. Obviously the place had a lot of issues and was out of business in the next couple years, but it gave me the mentality early on of execute and ship. Good times indeed. And yeah...I was waiting tables in a fine dining restaurant a month before...