I'm intrigued.

I didn't think to introduce myself.

Im a bit of a polyglot.
Before any official training, as a teenager I helped my Dad on various industrial electrical projects.
My first training was aircraft avionics in the forces.
After leaving the forces, I worked as an instrument tech in industry for a year.
Encouraged by a materials scientist, I enrolled in a computer science course that did not go well, I ended up fixing computers, mainframes to micros for a few years making glob loads of wonga.
Having built up a cash cushion I decided to go back to school on my dime. Strangely, I decided to study Jewellery Design - my fallback choice, as my 1st choice, Industrial Design was not a course I could take (though it is my true calling). I was soon experimenting with weird alloys and techniques.
A move to Europe preceeded a course in Sculpture in the Netherlands, my ancestral home.
A move to the UK preceeded a fairly long stint in the entertainment industry as an electronics engineer with a brief trial as a model maker.
Electronics led (back) to computers and software.
Eighteen years later, I am now a fairly accomplished software engineer.
I regard software design as a kind of N dimensional space because the materials used are essentially not 2 or 3D, and is interesting.in its own right but my first love is 3D problem solving.

I know most people don't supply quite so much info by way of a intro but I do like to be precise and so I did.