I don't agree with your reading of the question. I feel like "rather large 10 year gap" is fixating in part on the length of time.

> glosses over the part where you went from installing internet to being a software engineer. It makes it sound like you just magically became a software engineer while road tripping around the country managing a friend's comedy tour.

parent is wondering about the transition to software engineer, not saying that nothing happened for 10 years