From my early childhood I was interested in astronomy, physics, maths and all things that are looked upon as boring :) Now I am an engineer and still keep myself up on the news.
I am running Seti@home as a hobby so the processing capability of my PCs is not wasted :)
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.