Professional driver, currently drive long haul but pre-COVID was hauling around people (who don’t like to be referred to as “freight”) and before that non-human

Professional driver, currently drive long haul but pre-COVID was hauling around people (who don’t like to be referred to as “freight”) and before that non-human freight. Started as a temporary job (just a couple years to save up some money) in ‘98. Always been interested in tech stuff and around ‘08 or ’09 taught myself to program properly so I could contribute to Blender since I enjoyed using it but aren’t really that good at 3D art. Kind of wish I’d signed up for an account at slashdot at the turn of the century for some ‘hacker cred’ but looking at my account over there my first post was in ‘05. Incidentally, that’s where I’d learned of this Linux thing since windows ME was such a POS I was super happy to find a replacement…thinking back that had to have been in ’01 or so. Also remember messing around on the interwebs in my college days in the mid-90s but didn’t do too much techie stuff, mostly just whatever your common person did on the web in those days. Now I just read HN to get my news fix when I get an off moment here and there…