I tried formal education and lost my taste for it very quickly.

I've been a self-employed geek since 1996, without benefit of the occasional temp gig since 1998. I write perl all day and sometimes all night, too. My niche is web stuff, e-commerce (oh, how I hate that term!) in the main, with some system administration thrown in for flavor. It's a never-ending quest to discover the keystroke sequences that will make money appear in my mailbox.