By the time I got my first job in 1996, I had been a hobbyist for 10 years and graduated from college. The last thing I was thinking about doing as a single 22 year old who had just moved to the big city and had free cash flow was sit down at a computer after work.

I have never in 30 years written a single line of code that I didn’t get paid for except a little work I did for charity.