What I like about my job:
"It's exciting to work with latest/greatest software, something new that nobody seen yet, and I have. It makes me feel proud to be part of development/testing of this new software, because of my input. It makes me so proud to say that I worked on this; this is how it looks because I suggested that or came out with this idea. Or I found all these bugs that were fixed."

How did you get into the field?
"It all started when I was in high school and my interest in computers came from puzzle/strategy games. At the time I didn't have computer and couldn't afford one, so I would stay almost everyday after school to play on computer. It wasn't just games, I was learning DOS on my own, windows 3.1 and a whole lot about hardware. Later I bought my first computer it was IBM 286 with monochrome display, 5.25 disk drive and 10mb hard drive, but I was so excited. It was the excitement to explore new things to learn something new. I remember I was taking typing and I was taking drafting on computer, but while I was in class I didn't care about typing or drafting I always tried to break in to things where I wasn't allowed and I did, I cracked the password algorithm and with that I was able to figure out everybody's passwords. It felt so good that I accomplished something big, it was never my intention to do any harm, it was for the reason to see what can I do. I had big passion to learn about computers and after high school I went to college. But I would say that I learned more on my own then in college. I had fellow students with me who finished college and still didn't know much, because they didn't have the desire to learn, they were there just to get their diploma. It surprised me so much when I would come up to some students after they completed their assignment and ask them to show it to me and they couldn't. And these were "A" students. After college when I had first job in computer field, I was computer technician, I always tried to learn about the latest products that came out, always had the interest in latest and greatest technology. After I got my fist computer as soon as I had some money I kept upgrading my computer with faster CPU, better video card, latest CD-R. I only slowed down in the last couple years because hardware technology got so ahead of software, that you would no longer need top of the line computer to run latest games or programs."

What do you think it takes to be successful in this field?