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Hitting 40 years next year, since the day I found that TRS-80 at the nature center.

Companies have paid me to do it, for the last 25. So I do it all week, then do my personal projects on the weekends.

But I never wanted it as a "career". I never, ever, "aspired" to be a programmer. I just always was one. It's all just playing with computers, and coincidentally businesses need it, so I don't have to get a different day job.



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