[Mezzie]

Thoughts and random advice mixed together:

- Before you go to university/college and semi-regularly afterwards do a security/doxx/skip trace/etc. on yourself and your accounts. Even if you later do more impressive work, presenting your earliest work is going to be the only way to prove that you were working pre-18/pre college degree, and you are going to need that proof. The main thing is to make sure that there's nothing connecting to those accounts/handles/usernames that might make you unemployable or people not wanting to work with you. It's a good practice to get into because when you're 28 and handing over proofs of what you did when you were 14, you don't want to lose job offers because 14 year old you named your variables 'buttface' or said something that was acceptable in 2019 that isn't in 2035 or something.

- Consider what you want. Do you want to maximize for money? For free time? For autonomy/freedom? What types of tasks do you enjoy doing?

- Consider majoring/minoring in something completely unrelated to CS. One major benefit those of us with significant programming/tech experience pre college have is that we already have a trade/profession going into college. (I started when I was ~5-6). Keep up with your tech work, but doing coursework in areas like communications or business management or picking a rare domain to acquire knowledge in to combine with your tech skills is going to be very advantageous particularly in the middle or later parts of your career.

- Don't worry a bunch about low-balling yourself. It's really weird to try to get an idea of where you fit in the market if you're an outlier and talented young people get really mixed messages sometimes. I think the main question to ask yourself is do you want to go into smart contract or browser security work? You clearly could.