I gave up my more or less very highly paid software development career and moved to Utah to eat ramen noodles every day and ski 120 days a year. All things con

I gave up my more or less very highly paid software development career and moved to Utah to eat ramen noodles every day and ski 120 days a year. All things considered I now wish I'd done that immediately as soon as I was old enough, and never got into programming as a career. I'd almost say I wish I'd never learned to program, except being able to write your own programs for your own use (or fix/improve existing free software that you use heavily) is pretty nice. The money I've made in those ~15 years sure is nice, but it doesn't really come close to making up for wasting the best years of my life.