When I started, I was engaged, in graduate school and interning in the IT department of my undergrad college, doing general systems administration and hacking out a few scripts for automation. I'd never written a line of PHP.
Now I'm married (coming up on ten years), and after having another job for 6 years in the interim, I'm working as the programmer, support, and sysadmin for the Psych department of a university near where I worked before, working primarily in PHP both in that job and in BattleMaster development.