Hi, and greetings from Finland from a female collector!
I'm 20 years old, and I'm a Uni student. I also have a job at a local company. I actually have a bad memory regarding My Little Ponies from my childhood that kept me away from ponies from a quite long time, but I'm allright now. x)
I got into the pony fandom because of Friendship is Magic. I fell in love with the show after a few episodes. Fluttershy is my favourite pony from all of the mane six, even though I love them all pretty equally.
Pony collecting came a bit afterwards, but since I tend to collect merchandise from other stuff I love (Mainly Pokemon and video game/anime merchandise, lol) I eventually got my hands into these too. I love the classical Generation 1 ponies and FiM ones, and I have decided to collect them only. My collection is modest at the moment, with about 5 g1 poinies, though I have a bigger collection of FiM ponies (about 20 or so, counting all the blindbag ones).