I'm 20 right now. I got my first gig in April, but it was a short term contract thing, and now I'm looking for work. Oh well, got my foot in the door at least. I was 16 when I started learning how to do this.
currently 29, started with 3d being 14 (3d studio dos yay) then with 16-18 the quake mod era (also most notably urbanterror with EarthQuake). First freelance work during university, i.e around 21 or so. Changed to programming with university. Had some little freelance work on that end and researcher position at university…