http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2005/07/19/440789.aspxThis week marks three anniversaries of varying degrees of significance in my computing career. It's 20 years since my first paid employment in the computing industry. I was 12 years old, and I was overjoyed to have a program published in a computeren-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2005/07/19/440789.aspx#440880Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:53:19 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:440880Nishant SivakumarMicrosoft employee blogging is one of the collest things that has happened in the last 2 years :-)<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=440880" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2005/07/19/440789.aspx#440863Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:40:05 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:440863SimonTockerIts funny you say about the first paid computing task at 12. <br> <br>My first paid for program was also at the age of twelve, I wrote a stock control program for the neighbors who ran a few market stalls and I got &#163;50 for it as well. <br> <br>Forever doomed to write business applications from that point on, why oh why didn't I write a game in machine code, then I'd be working along side my friends in the games industry getting my brain fried by complicated maths, long hours and to many take away pizzas for the constant stupid deadline. Hang on perhaps it was a good move.<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=440863" width="1" height="1">