Like most people, I have to work a day job to support my family, and my hobbies. To see my full work history, take a look at my resume, but this will give you a brief synopsis.
I started as a software developer, and soon found myself getting paid to work on open source software. I moved to a small company in California to try to strick it rich in the dot-com boom. Unfortunately, I ended up going to California just before the boom went bust. So, we never really got a huge benefit out of going out there.
We moved back to North Carolina in 2004, and I got a job at RedHat, working on one of the few non-open source projects (RHN). I left RedHat when it became clear that I wasn't going to move into management within the company.
Now I work for Peopleclick, a small HR software company in Raleigh. I was hired in as a first-line manager. Being a manager is very different from being a developer. I am learning (not quickly) to stop jumping to solutions, and instead letting my team tell me how they want to tackle the problem.