> You REALLY needed to be thick skinned back then as nobody got any support from anyone. If you expressed interest in computers, you were ostracised as a freak.
Reminds me of high school where I chose not to learn coding on the side since another kid almost got expelled for "hacking". Sometimes you have to really choose your battles.
I stayed away from coding for a lot of pre-high school and figured I should go to music school since I found it easy because everyone kept advising me "you need to be really good at math to be a developer" and my interest and grades in math were mediocre with the same level of effort. Then there were other perception barriers (imagine being told you'd need to program on punch cards as a 12 year old... in the 90s). But it turns out you shouldn't really trust people that have never been in a career to get much valid advice about it.
