How did life turn out?

[Rare_z]

We were all addicted to Runescape at one point, and have had different paths since then.

I'm curious as to how everyone is doing nowadays. It'd be neat to share some of your stories and where you are today.

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- Started: 2005
- Quit: ~2012, 2013
- Age: 27-30 (guess)
- Career: Software Engineer

Regrets?

• Spending so many years playing Runescape. Basically all of my high school years were spent on Runescape. I opted for grinding Runescape stats rather than having friends. In my later HS years, though, I did start working out at the gym.
  
• I remember looking at a "C++ programming tutorial" sometime around 2003-2004 (before my RS days). I wish I would had learned C++ back then. I remember thinking "wow, this looks difficult" and navigated away from that page.
  
• My biggest regret, I guess, was not getting into backend programming sooooooo much sooner. I did setup a couple basic LAMP stacks (linux, apache, mysql, php).
  

If you could go back in time, what would you change?

• Play Runescape less. Experience high school. Be less shy. Make more friends. 
  
• Join Facebook or Google back in 2008 or 2009. I had actually thought about this, but some reason I thought I was too young at the time.
  

About you: 

Nowadays I'm a Software Engineer. It all somewhat worked out in the end, but I do wish I would had gotten into programming so much sooner. Professionally I began in 2014, but I could have started as early as 2004/2005 if I just finished that C++ tutorial. My life would be so much more different now.

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