I taught myself Borland Pascal and wrote some toy programs. Then went to the local photocopy store and offered to write a login program so that people wouldn't

I taught myself Borland Pascal and wrote some toy programs. Then went to the local photocopy store and offered to write a login program so that people wouldn't cheat on their reported hours when they checked off the computers, and print off a receipt. The manager accepted my terms of $50. Then he hired me. (It was DOS, so quite simple.)