I was working in the finance division of Burdines Department Stores when the IBM-PC was announced. I had been working with a System 34 and immediately saw my future. This was around 1981.
Here is what I was doing at the time.
The head of our DP department said there would be no need for PC’s because you couldn’t do anything with them. So I left
Within months, I was working for the largest Independent PC store in the country and balls-deep into the world of PCs.
It was the biggest open door to opportunity that I’ve seen in my whole life. I knew there was a huge future, and I was about to get in on the ground floor at the very beginning. I started with CPM on Apple II and DOS 1.0 on the PC.
They weren’t ubiquitous back then. I learned more by fixing them and figuring out why they crashed than almost everyone I knew.
The other decision I view as one of my best is to not take the COVID-19 jab. While everyone pressured me to get it, I held my ground. To this day, I don’t regret it and never have to worry about what they put into it. You can never get un-jabbed.
Delusions of Adequacy 
Decision –> observation:
In my 2nd year in college I decided that what I was learning was nothing more than an upgrade of what had been a very good education in high school. College was showing me nothing that would guarantee food on the table as the end game.
But, at that time (1960) the military draft obligation hung over young male heads like some kinda threat, so to avoid being cannon fodder, I decided to go Navy and learn some marketable skill while running around to exotic and dangerous ports.
In my 2nd year of THAT I observed that the guys tellin me what to do weren’t anything special, so I decided to reduce their influence on me by becoming one of THEM. So I did all the courses, satisfied all the prac-facs, worked overtime whenever I could, and got myself a gold chinstrap.
Good times. Satisfying work. Saw more than a dozen foreign countries and set myself up for veteran’s health/education/retirement bennies. Went back later and finished my MA, taught in the environment which I saw as a waste of time, and let my good observations and decision-making skills provide la dolce vita I thought I deserved.
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I would have been programming for fun if they didn’t pay me to do it. Majoring in Computer Science in the early 80s was a great decision. Learning how to I learn was the most important lesson in college.
After my oldest grandson was killed, I knew I had to be an active participant in my grandchildren’s lives. The decision was the straw that broke the camel’s back on the 29 year old marriage, but she had left the marriage at least a decade before that. Best decision I made in my life was to be with the grandkids.
I think what I learned most by not getting jab is just how close to a full on fascist society we are. I always knew people were petty, spiteful, mean, and stupid; the jab made that take center stage.
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