[Anecdotally] I was on my way to Law School but decided to start a job in QA at a startup. Three months later I was writing code, and 9 months after that I left

[Anecdotally] I was on my way to Law School but decided to start a job in QA at a startup. Three months later I was writing code, and 9 months after that I left to find my first truly-engineering spot. Haven't looked back.