Wow, time flies when you're having fun... and even more so when you're busting your a**.

I'm now employed (quite happily, occasional grumbles aside) and I make enough money to do what I want (automobiles are fun).

I even get to use a weird programming language every day. Erlang is in increasing use, and I get to teach it to people who've been programming for a long time.

"I remember when you had to manually point to the next call frame" gets trotted out from time to time, and I get to say "Well, now you get to do implicit SMP, your function might recurse indefinitely for the next 30+ years, and you can't reassign to a variable... but I think you'll like it anyway."

Somehow it works.

And somehow I get to use an even weirder language for my own devices, namely Haskell.

C has been relegated to its proper domain, and Python is used for text-processing-type code (and a webservice or two).

Most of this is running on Linux, some even touches FreeBSD.

All of this takes place in what is supposedly a .NET shop.