Martin Jopson
Strangely, it was never a career option when I was at school.
First exposure to the net was at uni where I studied Photography and some of the research guys in the Mac lab were doing web stuff. Got invited to submit something for an online exhibition which later got featured in .Net issue #5.
Got hijacked from a career in Photography when the gold rush began. Bought a cheap HTML book to build a site for the photographer I worked with. Demand grew and one site led to another. [ So, I do a bit of HTML now and then, I can handle it... ]
Cash money and location-independence made it too easy and before I knew it I was part of a small team working out of Chamonix in the French Alps doing some great projects (Robbie Williams, Pokémon... gotta catch 'em all) for The Hub with time to enjoy the snow each day too. Add a summer location in Hossegor and we were living the dream. Back to reality with a bubble burst and a change of hemisphere followed.
A bit of remote working to the mother country was nice but then a visa situation forced some 9-5 M-F activity, I'm still not used to it. A little later the discovery of the WSP, the red book and eventually the WSG gave inspiration, enlightenment and untold frustrations re-learning how, why and wtf‽
I currently work with the mastheads team at News Digital Media.
So yeah, I work on the web, but I sometimes, especially during those IE6 moments, wonder why I didn't stick with photography...