I started my first open source application on a small netbook back in 2009 when I was deployed in Afghanistan. When I came back to my corporate job I use my ne

I started my first open source application on a small netbook back in 2009 when I was deployed in Afghanistan. When I came back to my corporate job I use my new technical experience to more than doubled my salary with 3 raises in a year: first compensation boost for minimum salary after transferring from a design job in marketing to a developer job in product development, second for promotion to senior when I became the company A/B test engineer, third a match raise to prevent me from leaving after receiving an offer letter elsewhere. I set the record for most raises in a year and largest compensation boost (in percentage terms) at that company, which at the time had 3200 employees. That netbook was awesome. I would frequently pack it my rucksack without care which would become palletized cargo under other peoples' gear on aircraft. It took coming home to my kids to break it.