I felt like I was doing alright.

[captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works]

I felt like I was doing alright. That week I had been promoted to project manager, I was working at a prototyping firm making all manner of stuff. I was taking on interesting projects, learning lots of new stuff. There are products I developed for sale on Amazon right now, hell some of them have probably been ripped off and are on Temu or Aliexpress by now. There are things I built on four continents. Barack Obama was president, my nation had a future, and I still owned a motorcycle.