I started as a flash animator, then once actionscript was released that's when I got into coding, I then became both a flash animator and developer. Well actionscript's syntax is based off of ecmascript, which was later renamed to javascript. So naturally I jumped into html/javascript/dhtml etc. I then moved to php and other server side scripting languages. PRetty soon I became a full fledged wbe developer.
Out of pure curiosity I jumped into seo mainly to learn more about it and defend flash against false claims that it hurts seo
. Flash doesnt hurt seo, putting yoru conent into flash is a bad seo move. But dont put your content in flash and it works just fine. So anyways I became an seo completely out of hobby and curiosity. I refuse to offer seo services to anybody because I just don't have any interest in seo'ing for somebody else. I find seo skills to be usefull, it is obviously a grown industry and still growing, however it is still underground for the most part...in my opinion anyways.