Guess the junior dev they had building their systems hadn’t figured out regex yet lol

Godspeed

It’s very possible that movie had an influence on my career decisions lol

I did first@last.me and can confirm, it confuses people all too often.

I grew up with my dad always doing work in and around the house himself and now as an adult doing the same with my house, so I wasn’t completely going in blind. My last programming job was in the office furniture industry and that gave me a leg up having knowledge about casework, tabletops, etc. My brother in law was also a finish carpenter (now a job superintendent, but we work in fairly different areas/companies) and I had helped him with side work over the years.

As an ex-programmer that is now in the trades I can say my mental health is way better and my back hurts less these days since I’m not sitting in an expensive “ergonomic” chair all day. There are a lot of high paying trades that are far from back breaking work. Personally I got in to finish carpentry building science labs specifically.

There’s also the added benefit that I like playing with computers again, when it was my day job I wanted nothing to do with them after work.