Ha ha Good one! Your parents sound a lot like mine. Good all around advice to yourself when you really can't give him all that much detail. Are you saying you're being put in the "IT" dept. against your will at work? That kind of threw me.
If there's one thing I learned after growing up it's that children aren't at fault for anything other than their own decisions after they've been taught. Shoulda put that in there too! So I guess I need to write a letter to myself from yesterday to put that in the letter... and.. yeah. LOL!
No, I'm certainly not doing anything against my will. I happened to luck into a job in the IT field when I really, desperately needed a job to support an unexpected infant. I ended up being good at it, stayed, was promoted, etc, despite not necessarily enjoying it. Now I'd like a career change, but the golden handcuffs, so to speak, make that really difficult. It's a work in progress. At least it's a goal to aim for!
Kids = innocence; of a purity that ultimately, in most cases, gets lost bit by bit as they age. A few get to hold onto at least some measure of it through adulthood though, and thank goodness! They're our saving grace!
I see. I loved designing and writing software; it's kind of like being a magician at times, and sometimes the praise one gets for some coming up with a neat little function only serves to inflate the ego but generally not the wallet. Someone going out of their way to give me a pat on the back was a signal that I should start thinking about promotion, lol.
I moved into the configuration manager position the last 5 years, so I was doing a lot of administrative work with approving and distributing new software releases, and a lot less coding. I was more an employee of the IT dept. at that point and less an employee of the software dept.
Those golden handcuffs are certainly hard to break. I hope you find a key, but I think you may be on to something on the horizon. The best of luck to you!