Yes, but I think somewhat inadvertently. My mother bought a computer for the house. She made sure to show me how to use the basics of the computer but I really

Yes, but I think somewhat inadvertently. My mother bought a computer for the house. She made sure to show me how to use the basics of the computer but I really think I just used it for playing video games. Sooner or later my mother decided to put software on the computer to restrict my amount of usage and so forth. I started reading all of the manuals and documentation I could find and eventually found security flaws and ways to bypass the restrictions. This turned into a game of cat and mouse over the years until I eventually got my own computer at around 17 or so. By that time I had gone from playing games to spending all of my time writing software or finding vulnerabilities in my school district's systems. I really think the constants attempts to lock me out and the subsequent research and trial-and-error of circumventing all of the restrictions really had a great hand in getting me interested in IT. It also gave me the understanding that putting forth great effort towards a problem yields great results.