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Ross

After doing a HND in Computer Programming, about to start my degree I was visiting a pen-pal in another city and they left me with their father for a little while.
Turns out he was an electronic engineer for a very small company looking to take on a software engineer but unable to afford one. I volunteered.

I gave up my degree for a year to get some work experience getting paid very little so that I would have an edge when it came to graduation. This was shortly before software developers became such a hard to find resource.