First, thank you for sharing and welcome to HN! :) Second, I want to take a moment to commemorate and celebrate my father, who enrolled at MIT in 1967, graduat

First, thank you for sharing and welcome to HN! :) Second, I want to take a moment to commemorate and celebrate my father, who enrolled at MIT in 1967, graduated w a Master's in CSEE, spent 25 years working at GenRad and continued working as a software engineer (at MathWorks) until the week before he passed away in early 2018. So he was a programmer for over 50 years. While I'm unlikely to reach that milestone (having started "late", a couple years after graduating college in 1996), my younger brother wrote his first program at age 5 and is still at it today (36 years and counting). No particular point to make here, just reflecting on our chosen field and feeling very, very fortunate to be part of this community. Be well! :)