I have started using Latex in the 90's right after I entered university to study physics. For a while I did all my writing in Latex, first with emtex under MS-DOS, then with tetex under Linux, but this ceased after I entered the workforce. There isn't a lot of appreciation for beautifully typeset documents in the business world. But I keep returning to Latex (xelatex recently because of UTF-8) whenever I need something above average.