I'm 36, unmarried, male, and live in Seattle, Washington (USA). I've dabbled with computers and programming on and off since junior high (around 1980), but have only gotten serious about it in the last 10 years or so (almost entirely self-taught), and have only been employed in the field for about 5 years. I had two years of college (nominally majoring in chemistry) at the University of Alaska (the state where I grew up) before dropping out, moving to Seattle, and frittering away my young adulthood. ;)
I work for a small company that does electronic payment processing and check management. Our system is built around an old Pick database (ugh), and most of my programming is in Pick Proc (a shell-script-like, but truly horrible, language) and Pick's dialect of Basic (which is only 20 years out of date...). As we're moving more towards integrating our server with desktop PCs, though, I've been able to use Python for a few projects, and I often use it for interactively exploring data files and doing sysadmin-type work.
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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