Picked up programming at a young age, but then worked as a bicycle mechanic all throughout high school and barely had any interest in computers. I thought I wou

Picked up programming at a young age, but then worked as a bicycle mechanic all throughout high school and barely had any interest in computers. I thought I would go to university for civil or mechanical engineering, but I ended up coming down ill and postponing my matriculation. While I was still recovering, I started picking up freelance gigs doing Wordpress installs and writing god-awful code. I somehow turned that into a software development internship at a big pharma company, quickly left that for a fledging startup, and now have a fellowship doing startup-y stuff in the US Government.