Around 2004 I had just recently graduated a shitty tech school as a DBA. Soon after I got a job via my father for one of his college buddies. My job was to convert old cobbled together FoxPro into something relatively modern. I was also hired simultaneously to the same company as a Java web developer and had to combine the two. I spent 2 hellish years there and haven't touched code since, which sucks because I used to really love programming.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 2 days ago

I had blanked this from my memory, but my very first programming job was to reimplement some FoxPro code in... Visual Basic. FoxPro is so strange to work in. It's like programming in SQL, and the codebase I was in had global variables everywhere.