In my first "real job" I was creating Access 2 applications in VB 4. (It had to run on Windows 3.1 Don't ask.) I learned very fast that I hated Windows.

I was asked to teach myself Perl because it was useful for this WWW thing. I did. I then got the opportunity to escape a job I hated for a much better one doing nothing but Perl. At that job I was lucky enough to find a mentor who had programmed in a lot of languages, including Lisp.

The rest is history.