Started out my career while in high school in 1985 as a C programmer hired in the Solid State group at Bell Labs. Best part of the experience was lunch surroun

Started out my career while in high school in 1985 as a C programmer hired in the Solid State group at Bell Labs. Best part of the experience was lunch surrounded by physicists who bantered about the world from a analytical perspective; positing hypotheticals, engaging in spirited debate, proposing thought experiments galore. Just an amazingly brilliant and wacky group of individuals. I owe a lot to that initial rewarding experience.