It seems that I'm not the only exception at age 26
I started back in `97 (amazingly for me, almost 10 years
)with everything related with system administration and networking/Cisco stuff, later had been sys admin of big hosting company and then QA engineering. During all these years I haven't had the time to learn C / Assembler, instead working with bash, perl , python, tcl/expect, sed/awk, and all these handy tools/languages which helps the system administration. Regards to everyone in this forum, recently it became the place that I visit and post everyday.