Hadn't really intended to be a Web Dev, but the first real job I got out of college was a sole-yet-jr in-house dev for an small ecomm company that wanted to rely on expensive 3rd party dev less for little things--came in just knowing js and jQuery. Could have been a short gig...

Well, that let me learn their ecomm platform, Demandware (later, SalesForce Commerce Cloud) from scratch, which is apparently a rare skill because its documentation and learning resources are locked up tight unless you already work for a company on the platform. Weird.

3 years later I'd learned everything so thoroughly that'd we'd dropped 3rd party dev company completely and I'm "Senior Developer" despite still being the only one and making... not enough. Then I sorta kinda whisper to linkedin that maybe I'd field some offers, and was immediately inundated with offers of 6 figures. So... thanks to SF for walling off their platform?

So now I'm a career SFCC dev, apparently.

(Old company landed on its feet. I gave a month notice and they got gap coverage from a new 3rd party team.)