LOL, indeed I do... I'm technically an EE, but work in I.T. instead. I started back in the day on an old Timex Sinclair, then moved to the C64, and eventually to PC. Necessity is the mother of all invention... Back in my C64 days I decided to run a BBS system... On my Mighty Mo 300 baud modem none the less... LOL... Hey, it was top of the line back in those days! I needed a way to store files for download and the 1541 floppy just wasn't cutting it, so I found some designs to make an MFM interface card for the C64... Which I eventually got working and managed to get a 10MB MFM hard drive hooked up to my C64... LMFAO... But that was my first "electronics" project, and I guess it kinda set the pace. I found that I enjoyed it, and even more so enjoyed learning about the "inner workings" of them. So while half the time I was focused on learning to program, the other half of the time I was focused on learning basic electronics, particularly digital electronics. Eventually I got into programming microcontrollers (this was all before I even graduated high school, LOL) and with that I was suddenly able to "blend" the two worlds. I could sit down and write code in assembly that could then interface directly with my electronics projects... Which to me was just fascinating... It seemed like the world was opening up and there wasn't anything you couldn't do with a little thought and prep work.
When I went off to college I realized I had to make a choice... I initially chose computer science... I quickly realized I made the wrong choice. I had been programming in basic (always loved TurboBasic back in the day), C, C++ and assembly before I even graduated high school, I had developed and released shareware "live door" games for BBS's, etc... Now I was stuck taking a bunch of classes learning to code in COBOL and write "Hello World" programs in basic... LOL So I decided to shift my focus to electrical engineering. Because that was always my weaker point and I knew I wouldn't be as bored.
The right out of college I landed a job as tech support for an ISP, a few months later I was their sys admin, and a couple years after that I had moved to a sister company as the head of their I.T. department. I've been in I.T. ever since and honestly don't regret it.
I still love whipping out my AVR Dragon and coming up with something cool to do with an Atmel microcontroller every now and then though. The ATMEGA's are still my all time favorite chip... Just amazing what you can do with those things!!!
