Thanks sharing that Chady.

I entered College thinking I was going to go into Civil Engineering (although I considered Architecture.) I eventually switched to Computer Science because a PASCAL class I took seemed "easy". (It was "easy" because I enjoyed it.) At this point, I thought my calling was graphic design, although there was no major for it at my school. I did a lot of graphic design ou the side in college. Towards the end of college, I started a website development with a fellow Computer Science major. I thought I would be providing primarily graphic design services for us. (And in fact, I could barely program in Perl or C at the time, and PASCAL wasn't hip.) Eventually I started programming in Perl, I think because we had more programming projects coming in the door than design projects.

I discovered that I actually enjoyed programming in Perl, perhaps more than graphic design. Fast foward a couple years. Now my role in the organization has shifted, and I do Perl and database work full time, and in my spare time maintain a large Perl/SQL driven website and an associated open source Perl project. Another accidental Perl Programmer. And Yes, I appreciate the Monastery for it's presence and support.

-mark