Well, my story probably isn't exciting, as there's not all that much to it, but I'll toss it into the pot :).

I started college with the goal of becoming a psychologist, but within the first year, that idea burned itself away quite quickly. I knew I wanted a different career, and I pondered on it for a good bit. Eventually, I decided that, since I worked with computers a lot for both entertainment and knowledge purposes (such as constructing a trio of computers from separated parts to learn how to do it), Computer Science would probably be an ideal major.

One quick trip to the advisement office later, I'd plunked myself into the world of programming. The majority of the courses for my degree involved learning the ins-and-outs of C++, and while they interested me, I didn't feel overly enthralled by the prospect of programming in such a language.

One course, however, was focused entirely on database programming. In it, we learned about MySQL, and the various means of operating and managing a database. Now that was interesting! The coding constructs made sense, the things you should keep track of and manage were common sense in my eyes, and manipulating data was fascinating to me for whatever odd reason. I breezed through the class and had a blast, eagerly looking forward to the second half of the course the next semester.

Unfortunately, the instructor quit the university at the end of the semester, and he didn't get a replacement. I was thoroughly disappointed, but I kept studying databases in my spare time, learning bits and pieces about management and manipulation. Once I'd graduated, I was certain I wanted a job, any job, working with a database as soon as I could get it.

It took a year, but I managed to land a job at a small business in a town near where I currently live, and I've been ecstatic ever since. It's been just short of a year since then, and I've been gobbling up all the information I can about SQL Server and how to program fluently in it. I know I have a huge amount to learn before I can say I truly know the language and its operations (if I can ever really mean it when I say such a thing), but I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing what I can learn next, and where my choice of profession will take me in the future.