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Originally Posted by bradclark1
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Originally Posted by Psycluded
For me, it all started with a TI-82 calculator and free time in math class.
From there I graduated to MUD scripting and coding, working on LPMuds and TMI/TMI-2 (codebases for LPMuds).
After (and during) that, I was flunking college because I was burned out on school so badly I could hardly -make- myself concentrate. I decided if I was gonna spin my wheels, I might as well do it somewhere I might manage to accidentally do some good, so I joined up with the US Air Force and spend the last 6 years developing web applications for them in Java and .Net.
Now I'm a freelance designer/artist/programmer, and going to school on my own time while my wife finishes her enlistment in the Air Force as well.
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I tried to get my son to join up in that kind of field but my career scared him off of the military. Now he's a photographer.  |
A lot of kids are avoiding the military like the plague these days, and I can't say I blame them, in a lot of ways. Still, the Air Force gave me three things I did not have before I joined:
a) Money for college.
b) The chance to meet and woo my wife.
c) A love of my country that will never fade. (notice I said "country" and not "government")
Still, there are worse things than being a photographer.