I’m the son of a software engineer, I’m a software engineer, and I am also recently a new father to a daughter. When I think back to my childhood — I really ap

I’m the son of a software engineer, I’m a software engineer, and I am also recently a new father to a daughter. When I think back to my childhood — I really appreciated my dad showing me how computers work, letting me build them, explaining to me what a transistor did, how ISA and PCI worked, etc. It obviously had a profound influence on me given my career. What really sucked was his work at all costs attitude; I rarely saw him, and this stayed true for his second crop of children w/ my step mother. In sum; I loved the technical learnings offered, didn’t really care about his work (early 90s tech wasn’t that fun/interedting?), and I certainly chafe, now, at how absentee he was due to his career.