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Been trying to get my daughter into pushing buttons but she’s more into climbing trees and digging for worms...
I wouldn't worry, you can't win.
As a kid that was more interested in pushing buttons I now wish I'd spent more time climbing trees and digging for worms 🤷♂️
Give 'em the option and support for either and they'll be fine.
duncs
Love stories like this!
Mine is similar; came to London in 1990 as a 6yo refugee from Soviet Ukraine with my mum & baby sister, raised in poverty in a council flat by a single mum with two/three jobs.
She bought me a C64 with a tape drive and a BBC Micro from a car boot fair in 1993, on which I dicked about making useless programs in BASIC.
Got given a second-hand 386 DX2 66MHz PC by a family friend a few years later, then built a Pentium P60 machine from brand new parts with money I made working as a 12yo carney on weekends cranking ancient roundabouts by hand with a travelling Victorian fairground. Bought a 33.6K dialup modem not long after that, that led to spending every spare penny on my mum’s phone bill, constantly on newsgroups & making websites featuring Quake mods I’d made.
Got permanently kicked out of school at 15yo before I could take GCSEs due to bad home situation and getting into car crime & drugs, never got a chance to go back. Spent the rest of my teens and majority of twenties doing and selling a lot of drugs in squat raves.
But I never stopped being a dork. Started building computers for friends & family at 15, went on to run a home AV installation business, then freelance consultancy in live event AV, and now am a network, infrastructure and broadcast engineer for a big AV company.
Been trying to get my daughter into pushing buttons but she’s more into climbing trees and digging for worms...