Someone on Craigslist paid me $50 to fix his CSS in the late 1990s. I was a teenager in Virginia looking at CL for the first time (not knowing it only served th

Someone on Craigslist paid me $50 to fix his CSS in the late 1990s. I was a teenager in Virginia looking at CL for the first time (not knowing it only served the Bay Area) when I saw the post in "gigs." I told him he could pay me half the original amount since I didn't totally solve his second of two problems, but he said, "I don't underpay my contractors," and the full amount was in my PayPal shortly thereafter. As a teenager who'd never held a job I was pretty stoked about getting paid for something fun. Later I'd be the only non-CS major hired by my university as a summer student PHP programmer. I never took the plunge to do programming full time, but I'm slowly working it into my job as a mechanical engineer.