I'm from Jamestown, ND. I'm 29 years old and work as a Network Administrator. Seti@Home started out for me shortly around when the project was released as a way to sort of benchmark new computers. That plus the fact that I love space and would love to have lived in the future where space travel was possible. I'd have probably been a ship's engineer.
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.