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Tenderloin-
That's very cool!
I have a vivid memory of doing my first piece of paid computer work (a shit load of typing for university lecturer the family knew) in Summer 1987 at the age of 6...the reason I remember it so well is because I had my Mum & Dads old black and white telly on in the background and remember Greg Louganis smashing his head on the diving board.
I received a cheque for £5 which was duly paid into my parentally supervised building society account. Didn't get the keys to that account until my 18th birthday so technically speaking I blew my earnings from when I was 6 on booze and fags.
Stonehedge
Just occured to me that this was how I ended up in my career.
My Mum was a teacher at Forest Hill Boys School and had access to a computer in the mid 1980s. I taught myself to code on it in 1987 while waiting for my Mum to finish work in the evenings. I was 7 at the time.
Didn't get my own computer until the early 90s, when one of my father's colleagues gifted us an old Amstrad.