I sometimes feel I missed things too. For me, it's a better era alignment in that I was writing low level code on the simpler machines. But, I did step away for quite a while doing manufacturing, CAD, and a lot of related things.

All of which were very interesting, but my real love is programming and circuits. So, now I'm back, making progress, loving it, but also feeling a bit out of place.

We are not alone, of that I am sure.