I worked as an independent IT consultant / admin-for-hire since I was 20 or something and continued moonlighting for existing clients during my first 2 permanen

I worked as an independent IT consultant / admin-for-hire since I was 20 or something and continued moonlighting for existing clients during my first 2 permanent positions. At one point a friend of mine was working at a company that needed a way to talk to some printers that were running at their warehouse from a web application running at a remote location and I hooked them up using OpenVPN and CUPS with IPP. When I found myself out of a job 1,5 years later, the company and it's needs had grown considerably and they hired me. That was 2014, I'm still there as the primary infrastructure guy. Although my responsibilities have grown and changed considerably since then, I'm still maintaining that CUPS install. Switched out OpenVPN for Wireguard, though :)