Have a dad who has always been in IT and so been around Macs/PCs since a kid.
Never really a programmer until a few years ago. Working now as a web developer full time in Japan, mostly PHP and Javascript and freelance Flash support on the side (negotiated to work from home several months ago!).
I recently landed a contract as a work from home, part-time iPhone developer with a fairly big systems firm here and am in my first "trial" month now, doing a basic but still challenging enough for me educational app.
I'm using that to force my iPhone skills up so I can hopefully make my own niche apps soon and worst case is that I will be very employable for an iPhone / Cocoa development position here.
I'm a Apple fanboy from many years ago and am so happy to see them leading the way with the iPhone.
The current firm hiring me for the iPhone job asked if I was interested in programming for the Android platform too and I laughed and said, sorry, I am after $$ to support my family and I don't see any money in Android yet..
I'm 27 now.
At first, I was very lost and took me quite a while to get my head around the Obj-C iPhone language, but once over the first steep learning curve, my object oriented PHP experience helped with the language and Flash Actionscript exp. is helps with the concepts of listeners (NSNotifications) and the animation coding.
I would be very happy to be coding iPhone stuff full-time. Not sure I'll get into Core Graphics yet, but if I do, I'm sure there'll be some cool jobs available at the Nintendo main office, which is very close to me here
