That was an interesting read, as my relationship with my dad was pretty similar at that age. I was coding image handling systems for newspapers (in 80286 assemb

That was an interesting read, as my relationship with my dad was pretty similar at that age. I was coding image handling systems for newspapers (in 80286 assembly) with my dad handling the business side. We had some success - installations in a few newspapers and some banks in Iceland, but not making real money. The parts about the tension and fights sounded almost exactly like my story. Then I left home at 22 and came to grad school to UC Berkeley, all the way across the country, which was one of the best decisions I ever made. I'm still doing 2D graphics software! It flows more or less directly from the work I did as a teenager.