I started buy looking at what my father did. Thereafter he learned me Ohm law and resistors color charts (when i had 6-7 years old). He buyed me a Radio Shack 200-in-one kit. I blow almost everything in, then he learned me how to change the parts on and how to test them.

1982-3-4,
  1. learning how to program in Basic on Texas instruments TI99/4A, Vic20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, TRS-80, TANDY1000.
  2. Build my first DJ Mixer (kind of) +Power amp in a wood enclosure mostly by using Junk-Yard parts
  3. Refurbishing old Turn-Table to have 2 to begin mixing
  4. build my first 110-Vac light chaser + audio trigger with auto-volume control + 3 different pattern with 74xxx TTLs + MOC 3010 + TIC 246 Triacs
  5. Build the next version of that chaser but using the Printer PORT of my VIC-20 and the joystick port for the audio trigger
[*]GWBasic and DOS on 8086/8088[*]CPM on Z80 based system

1990-1994
  1. learn VisualBasic, C++, C, Visual C, Cobol, Pascal, Fortran
  2. Build my first lab PSU (which i still have) named IL3U (instrument lab 3 utility) +12,+5,-5,-12,+Variable, -Variable, + Tone generator (Square, Triangle, Sine) TTL out, Variable Offset, Variable gain, -20Db switch... around that crappy ICL8038 + audio amp
  3. Electronic college... Telecom
  4. university... which i gave up because it was pointless and annoying to me to learn those unusefull and brain filling Maths+Trigs+Chem+etc etc etc

Later i work as
  1. car accessories installer (amp, Car starter, alarm, radio etc etc etc).
  2. car audio repair and car radio decoding.
  3. Chief tech for rental department for Solotech here in Montreal. Pro-Audio
  4. Start my own on-the road car radio repair/decode + cluster + PCM + BCM + etc etc etc
  5. Introduce electronic Design/mod
  6. EOT

And i skipped many things none electronic related.