I wouldn't change a thing now, but when I was young I could have gotten a lot better pay if I had a PhD which I never got. Instead I guess I went straight to w

I wouldn't change a thing now, but when I was young I could have gotten a lot better pay if I had a PhD which I never got. Instead I guess I went straight to working professionally with equipment they wished they had, got a head start by comparison and had more time to work with it because as a PhD I would have had to spend too much more time on wasteful bureaucracy, and that would have really added up over a lifetime. The pay and opportunity discrepancy were noticeable when I was employed but I was always going to be an entrepreneur anyway, and it really helped owning everything I ever invented on my own plus leveraging all my other progress like I would not have been able to do otherwise.