Was it ever too late to revert a decision you made about your career?
Supposing you were a kid, and really didn't know what you would be doing When you would be however old you are right now. What would you do in that case?
A perfect career is very rarely something you can will into existence. It's more like a series of very small stepping stones. Certain stones will move you towards autonomy, flexibility, etc.
I generally recommend thinking about your day-to-day dream life (how much expendable income? living in nature? vacations? etc.) and then strategizing some paths to get there.
Showed it to someone who had a use for it and was willing to pay me for it; and that was the experience that opened my eyes to the fact that I could find an excuse to play with computers even more.
I wanted to fully comprehend computing from the plug to the outputs. I can't say that I've got there completely yet, but it's been a great deal of fun so far. Doesn't look like I'll run out of new thing to learn anytime soon, either.
I still can't seriously contemplate the though of being responsible for someone else's systems without physical pain. But I can write software that does things I want, and share that to others for any use they can make of it, without worrying about it.
I still think that the series was ahead of its time, and predicted a lot of scenarios that happened afterwards in reality before anybody thought of that being even remotely possible.
I also have the theory that every child that owned a C64 or Amiga went on to automatically be drawn to IT security, pentesting or similar areas.
And now I’m a grown up L block. Mostly useful but often leaving gaps