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that all that studying and academic pressure had basically zero payoff other than at least im employed

How amazing computer games look now.

I mean, I'm impressed now, on behalf of ten year old me I suppose.

Life gets worse. Much worse. And you will survive and even find happiness. And everything you needed, you had it all along.

You got to touch a girl's boobies.

10 year old me would be extremely disappointed in my Christmas lights.

I should have Clark W. Griswold level lights, but with colors and blinking lights.

Instead I put up all plain white lights along the windows and doors and a wreath like a reasonable person.

It's so much work as an adult with adult responsibilities to find time to hang lights, and even worse when you have to take them down.

I am ashamed.

The entire world of personal electronics and the cloud.

I got in early and my entire life is digital. I used the first mass market personal computers and was on several precursors to the internet before most lemmings were born. I’m a software engineer: I play video games and do home automation for fun. I don’t have much of a lab but only for lack of time. Seriously, my entire life.

When I was 10, I was still a couple years away from joining my first computer club (IBM mainframe), learning my first computer language (APL - I’m a math nerd too). There were no mass market personal computer yet, and even the first kits probably weren’t out yet.

When I was 10, my life was skating through school, playing out in the yard with my brothers, or in the woods. I loved building and fixing, whether with my father’s tools, or model kits, or Lego. i loved camping, sports, visiting my grandparents farm. My interest in technology was mostly reading history. I would not even recognize most of my adult life

That's I've been working 2 jobs for twenty years and am still married to this asshole who I am grey rocking so I can get through my 12 hour workdays.

You are in accounting? Wtf? You can't even count.

That I'm an atheist, probably. Living on the opposite side of the world is a close second.

That I graduated high school, have a job, and changed my name. Instead of being locked away in a group home where I'm forced to stagnate at mentally 6 years old, and also punished for being mentally 6 instead of older.

Well I did write down that I was going to win a billion money and move to the moon. I have much less faith in gambling now though.

I finally learned to ride a bike. And I touched boobies.

Same as you. I also fully expected to be overweight. Sort of still do expect that at some point.

I can't imagine 10 year old me

10 year old me would be surprised that my predicted death didn't happen. As a bit of fun one time my cousin, my sister, and I all wrote obituaries for ourselves and I couldn't imagine living past 35 so that's when I set my death date. It would be a bit of a shock for him that I'm staring down the big 4-0 (still a bit of a shock for me).

I didn't have a lot of belief in myself. At 10 my dream was "work in an office", because it would mean I was smart enough to not need to work a manual job. I also firmly believed that no woman would want me.

I'd be surprised to learn that I'm married, have a child, and work in tech for one of the biggest companies in the world. They'd also be surprised that I'm moving to that city where Friends is.

That I never watched the final Star Wars movie. I was 10 years old in 1977 when the original came out

Computers aren't cool anymore.

That I'm still alive.

that i'm not a teacher and that i don't read as much book as i used to and should