My first experience programming for a job was working for Chromosome 21 maintaining their Wordpress website. After that I got an internship at Helios technologies doing embedded development. Once the internship ended they offered me a part time job, and I've been there ever since.
I hope to do more personal projects, as aside from class projects the only other substantial personal project I've done was creating a portfolio website, which I am aware is quite ironic.
I have a small bio on my website linked above.