Wayyyy ahead of you pal. Got into tech when I was a wee little lad, my dad would bring home computers from the work dumpster, hand me a screw driver and let me go at it.
When I was 11 I built a computer with my dad, and continued learning about tech and computers. I worked after school in middle school to help out the librarian, who had the job of looking after the laptops and computer carts.
Went into highschool and got into a Comptia± honors class, as the only freshman and the only person to get As in that class.
Fresh after highschool and 6 months into a computer job, I quit at the age of 19. Instead I went to pursue woodworking.
I had a great boss, and I was great at my job, but I was in computer repair. A dying industry and I was getting paid minimum wage, despite a lot of skill (microsoldering, logic board rework, macbook repair, liquid damage repair, etc).
Skill and knowledge that I studied for a decade, and I was being paid minimum wage. There were probably better opportunities but I wasn't interested anymore. The environment was just far too corporate, so I decided to start building my own business, woodworking, selling tools, and help teach.
Ive gone to tool events, tuned up a lot of tools, and given presentations and its 10x more fulfilling. Havent made a lot from the "business" but I'm happy.
"Infinite content" games where studios are dedicated to make games that drip feed new content by making you grind for hours and hours.
Stuff like looter shooters, destiny and gacha games. They such wastes of life. Imagine all the good games and experience you could have had, instead of grinding to the powercap
For me its been total shit. Inflation, and shrinkflation dug it's claws deep. Two tiny paddies, between 3 big buns. Take one big bite and it tastes like nothing.
On top of shit quality, prices have been going nuts. A big Mac near me is 8$. 8$ for one! Not a meal deal with a drink or fries included, just one burger!!!
Thats nearing the price of actually good places like five guys and other local joints that are like $12-16. The small burger from them probably has twice the meat of a bigmac. The bigmac is now a kid sized Burger.
Yeah, we usually give pinto some dry food to nibble on. Hes a bit of a chef, we once saw him moving the dry food on top of his wet food for the crunch. Afterwards we put a couple treats on his wet food.
Pinto doesn't comit or cough up a throwball very frequently. We were a bit worried at first, since hes a very furry cat, but hes perfectly.
Where casper