Indeed. It’s a topic I sometimes wonder about. I always tell people we have things we are good at doing, and things we love to do, and while they sometimes coa

Indeed. It’s a topic I sometimes wonder about. I always tell people we have things we are good at doing, and things we love to do, and while they sometimes coalesce, you have to think about the future yourself and plan ahead so you can generate some income doing what you’re good at. I don’t understand why other kids don’t think about their future the way my brothers and I did. Parents teaching maybe? We didn’t really have the problems of other people, not knowing what’s being phased out of markets, not knowing what we were good at. I always like to tinker to a certain degree with computers and videogames. My parents supported my decisions, but I was no slouch, I knew I had to work in whatever I could and was good at to generate money somehow while I found what I excelled at (and hopefully liked doing it too). Eventually I became a (Computer) Support Assistant, changing keyboards and setting up backup plans, and that started a career which now has me as a DevOps Specialist. I’ve always thought that even if you like doing art with scraps, why not try to market some of it for money? It’s absurd not to look around and figure there are people who would buy such things. You like doing it (probably on spare time), might as well share some of it for some extra money, while you do what you’re really good at on your daytime (and again, hopefully you liked doing it too). I’m sorry I didn’t explain more, but I always feel constrained by written forums/tweets. In general, yes, I think people need to be more conscious about their future. I was a teenager drinking alcohol and doing crazy things too, but it was clear to me the concessions I would have to make sometimes in order to move forward: Stop drinking and go study, or hey, maybe I can drink this time, or hey, maybe I need to go outside, walk for a bit, refresh my mind and come back to work. Try to educate your children more to be conscious. Just because I skate and with practice became good at it doesn’t mean I don’t really think every time I get on the board that I might not fall; I know I will at some point (and I have). Just accept the responsibility and live with the consequences.