I answered Just A Hobby, since I started programming at 10 (I'm 41 now) after being sent to computer camp by my mom where all we did was learn to use the computer - the TRS CoCo - and play games. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering that I have never used and for the last 12 years I have been a programmer in a Windows IT shop currently programming in C# and Python. But all my *BSD stuff is for me as that is what I use at home on my desktop and servers I run. I have been able to apply some stuff to my job - like switching our web server to Apache from IIS and using Python for batch jobs.
If it wasn't for find FreeBSD I would have become bored long ago with computers and probably would have no use for them and stayed a drummer in a punk band.
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -Philip K. Dick
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