Those of you who don't have a degree and love your job, what do you do?

I walk dogs. Everyone at work is always super stoked to see me and I never go home angry.

Already a strong start.

I drive a school bus and my elementary school kids are my favorite part of the day.

I make $14 an hour and work two and a half hours at a time and get paid for six hours a day unless I do a field trip or something.

And most of the time, those are fun as hell.

I get to go to the zoo, the science center.

I went to a Cardinals game.

I went to a swimming competition and got to stay in a nice hotel for a weekend getting paid the entire time.

The only thing I would change about my job are the buttholes I have to share the road with.

I'm a web developer.

I dropped out of college to move home and take care of my mom. Motorcycle accident, permanent

severe brain damage. I couldn't leave home. I had to be with my mom, so I did what I used to do

for fun. PHP. I hated PHP, though. So I researched what the most semantic and elegant

solution to web development was.

The research led me to develop with Python and Django. I met a website, Good Guy gamers, that

wasn't successful at all. It was way too much work for one person. I'm a terrible designer and

marketer, but I put everything I had into making the site have cool, unique features and demonstrate my skill.

It worked. I landed a job where I work near full time for a great company for $40 an hour,

and I have a huge say in what happens. I can work for three hours a day if I'm feeling awful

or can't focus for some reason, or I can work 12 hours a day, busting my butt on an exciting problem.

The main point is, I found what I'm passionate about, and I found a company that truly appreciates

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