"Sometimes I also think if it would be different if I was born several decades earlier. Back then, software engineering was in its infancy."

I think a lot of people can relate to this. I've often wished I could have finished college right before the .com boom, because it would have been so obvious to me that the internet was going to be big. Or would it have been? Hindsight is 20/20. If you had been born decades earlier you likely wouldn't even be into programming.