During my high school I learned C & C++, during my bachelors degree I was programming using visual basic 6 before comming to .net. It was all during the year 2003, when we had to do our final project and one of our clients, St Mary Syrian Church(they had schools/shops/church etc), they wanted to have a accounting package to manage there accounts as currently they were using pen & paper(using registers). That was my first programming job, to develop an accounting package developed using Vb6.0 and MS Access. After developing the whole application the client was impressed and they paid us some money and eventually for all the enhancement further on they paid us. It took around one year to fine tune the application. The best thing is still they use the application.
Vinay