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This was me too - I wanted to do things my computer couldn't do, and so I figured out how to make it happen. Absolutely the best way to learn in my opinion and so much easier today than it was when I learned.
Then my dad's friend needed some software and I knew how to do that... so I did. It was fun, and at the end he was like "so how much do I owe you?" and I was like "what? I have no idea. Didn't expect to get paid". He gave me a few hundred bucks and I did a few more small projects along those lines, and a bunch of open source work, before getting a job as a junior developer.
Been doing it for over 20 years now - money was never the goal, but I do earn a decent living thankfully.