Grew up interested in physics, went to college for economics, realized the potential for automation - I know this is going to sound crazy, but I never thought programming could ever help with the math I was doing - quit my job and went to an Applied Data Science graduate program after spending 8 months, 6 hour every day, learning programming and preparing myself. Got into a lot of research, met some guy that had an app idea, and now I program both automation systems, databases, API's, and front-end. I am no good at the latter, and subpar at everything else listed as well as everything unlisted.