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Brisket | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I gave up programming professionally within1within 12 months of starting my job out if uni.

I didn't like the way it was changing my thinking & I wasn't fast/good enough.

I was experiencing if then else statements & loops in my dreams.
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talej | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I taught myself SQL and HTML while I was working in a hardware sales staff support role out of school… ERP software the company spent a fortune on didn’t give them the reports they needed so I figured out how to build them

Sometimes you don’t choose the life you have. It chooses you
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Brisket | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Holy shit, so did I.

That was in a job while studying IT, so I'd already consciously chosen that path.

Figuring out what the customer wanted to know & them turning that into a report. I got pretty good at writing & optimising SQL.