When I was young, I wanted to be a computer programmer, but I was totally convinced there wasn't any money in it, so I picked a EE major instead when I started

When I was young, I wanted to be a computer programmer, but I was totally convinced there wasn't any money in it, so I picked a EE major instead when I started college in 1981.... Boy was I wrong!!! I ended up dropping out (I picked the school I barely got into, Rose-Hulman, instead of the one I could afford, Purdue Calumet), and had a varied career doing programming and some hardware before settling into a SysAdmin job for 15 years. Then I took a job making gears because it seemed like it would be interesting. It was, but the pay and commute sucked. Then in April 2020 COVID/Long COVID yeeted me completely out of the workforce. So I now have nothing but time, and little physical stamina in my forced early retirement. I hope to make a BitGrid chip[1] in the next few years, via one of the open source chip shuttles. If it works like I suspect, it'll mean dirt cheap and efficient Petaflop computing for the masses. [1] https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/2008/07/bitgrid-minimalist-systolic-array.html?m=1 https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/2008/07/bitgrid-minimalist-syst...