Wow, great thread; can't believe I missed it the first time.

I'm a Senior Software Engineer, currently working for a software company that creates products for non-profits. I've been doing some sort of programming since I was in the 5th grade (Commodore 64 BASIC FTW!). I really love what I do but I'm really itching to start off on my own. The whole Serial Entrepreneur is really intriguing to me. I've thought of doing similar things with online businesses; buying up struggling sites, improving them, making them profitable and selling them off. In 13 years of professional development, I've seen "management" ruin tech based companies more times that I can count.

EDIT: Oh, I dropped out of college too (GO HOKIES!). Low 6 figure income. It seems a lot of us got lucky and rewarded for playing on the computer all those younger years