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I started programming in 6th grade in assembly on Apple //e in 1986. By the time o graduated from college in 1996, I programmed as a hobbyist in assembly on f

I started programming in 6th grade in assembly on Apple //e in 1986. By the time o graduated from college in 1996, I programmed as a hobbyist in assembly on four architectures - 65C02, 68K, PPC and x86. The last time I programmed as a hobbyist was 1996. For the next 15 years my hobby was teaching fitness classes, running and lifting weights. I got married in 2012 and became a father to a 9 and 14 year old. When the youngest graduated in 2020 and a year after Covid lifted, my wife and flew across the US from October 2022 to October 2023 visiting over a dozen cities while I worked remotely, Software development supports my passions.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y ago
Congrats! If it was impossible for you to go back as a software developer, would you resume software development as a hobby?
- scarface_74 3y ago
  Absolutely not. I would spend more time in the gym and go back to teaching fitness classes and do personal training. I would learn a couple of foreign languages. My wife and I sold everything we owned and bought a unit in a condotel (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp) it is our legal official “home”. From 10/2022 - 10/2023 we traveled around the US taking one way flights and rented our place out. We would do more international traveling. I was limited to traveling mostly in the US since I had to fly to client’s sites, restrictions on logging in outside of the country for some GovCloud work and time zones.