I never wanted to be any sort of developer. I was studying graphic design. I partnered with a friend to create an app. He would code and I'd make things pretty. He flaked, and I picked up programming. That's my story.

Originally went to college for Graphic and Web Design. Right near graduation, at a conference, spend two hours having passionate conversation with seasoned full stack developer who showed up. Aspiring art directors looking blank in the face over topics. Had a "fuck these plebs" life moment. Day I decided I would become a developer.

I worked in a shoping center warehouse. Sent an application for a dev as a joke. They sent back a bunch of tasks. I googled a lot and solved all of them. 8 years experience as a dev since. :)

I started out as a graphic designer and then realized I can make websites by slicing the photoshop layouts I was already making.
I found this an incredibly bad way of making templates so I decided to do some research and started learning html/css.

After that I went to college and my brain just exploded of all the possibilities that were out there and I dove right into it...Nodejs, PHP, C , C++, C#, Python, machine learning... I can't get enough... there is just so much to learn and I want to try them all.

Studied Cognitive Science, started working in UX design with a little front end development, realized the design wasn't giving me nearly as much happiness as development. Today is my last day at my design hybrid job, starting as a full time jr dev Monday!

I've found almost every developer I meet has a similar story!