[kvonhorn]

I should have started practicing self care at a much younger age. I internalized a lot of negative stereotypes of what it means to be a man when I was younger, and am still undoing the damage I've done to my health from that.

I wish I knew how important is was for me to avoid having managers who use Adderall. My most toxic work situations involved managers on that drug. I still struggle to identify them in interviews. If I go back into W2 work, I'm thinking of straight out asking prospective managers if they're on it or another similar stimulant.

I went to college with the goal of getting a job and a career, not a BS. I was in college in the 1994-1998 timeframe, and could do web development. I wish I'd gotten on the dot-com money train rather than staying in college.