My parents were generally lax on how much computer time I had, with the only time they wouldn't let me use my computer was if I got bad grades in middle and hig

My parents were generally lax on how much computer time I had, with the only time they wouldn't let me use my computer was if I got bad grades in middle and high school (which admittedly was far too frequent...sigh). I pretty much got all my dad's hand-me-down computers since I was a kid, and as a result I became fairly tech-savy relatively young. Once my parents saw that I was learning to code C++ for fun when I was fifteen, without getting any school credit (and instead of playing video games), they stopped taking my computer away completely; partly because I was getting too old to "ground", and partly because they realized that me showing interest in technical work was probably something they want to encourage. When I dropped out of college, I was able to find tech work pretty quickly, and built a pretty cool career out of it, and I largely thank the fact that I was constantly tinkering with computers as a kid and teenager for that.