In my first year of the Art Acedemy we had to do everything so everyone could discover what he liked the most to do. From painting, photography, making audiovisual stuff / film, performance, etc. I already knew that programming / code were my tools to create something. So I showed them stuff made in Flash / Actionscript etc and what interactivity could do. I went to the art school, because they were starting a new course called 'interaction design' but it only started in the 2nd year. The 1st year was a difficult year for me, because they didn't understand my tools and I had to learn how to create concepts and learn to process ideas into something. But they didn't sent me away (although I had not enough study points) and within the context of 'interaction design' I was able to do my thing with teachers who understand digital technology. So I kept coding, learned https://processing.org/, played around with Arduino's and sensors etc. I even made a interactive art installation which went to several festivals. After my study I was a fulltime solopreneur for some years (doing client-work) and in the periode 2014-2021 I worked part-time for some small digital agencies and now I'm fulltime solo again since '21 doing a lot of Drupal related work.