For me.. I was a programmer in another life for a web company. We had an affiliate program – but no affiliate manager. All the deals we were doing, were just big end deals, but an affiliate program was needed. Soon – somehow – I was emailing people who were signing up. Soon I was being a programmer and affiliate manager for a number of brands we had.
I left the company and became an affiliate – wow… talk about getting hooked.
From there it became a case of affiliate, affiliate manager back and forth!
I can’t imagine myself doing anything else – unless it has to do with history and archaeology *dreamy*