MacPaint started my son as a graphic artist. He moved up to PageMaker and has been using every version of Adobe Illustrator since it came out. And some other things I don’t know the names of.
That was my start, too. I was a writer for my high school newspaper, and I had a collection of MacPaint graphics that I suggested to jazz up stories. One thing led to another, and eventually the school decided to spring for a Mac Plus, and I was laying out the whole paper (of which I was also the editor). The rest is history.
Quark replaced Pagemaker and has been mostly replaced by InDesign, I haven’t used Illustrator in a while, and I mostly write for the Web now, but at least part of my media career is traceable right back to MacPaint on a 512K Mac.