I didn't work full-time when I started there. College student, remember? I didn't have a full-time gig until I dropped out of college in 2001. BigCo refused to

I didn't work full-time when I started there. College student, remember? I didn't have a full-time gig until I dropped out of college in 2001. BigCo refused to bring on part-time workers, so I quit school and interviewed into the developer role, which was FT and necessitated me dropping out of school. Edited my previous post to reflect correct timeline: 1999: Moved to Valley; got a job doing desktop support at a startup 2000: Startup gets bought by BigCo 2001: BigCo says they won't hire PT employees. I quit school to take $49,500/yr FT dev job at BigCo 2002: Quit dev job and started working on my own stuff (I had paying customers for my company in 2001, but 2002 was when I finally quit and went into consulting and web hosting full time.)