And I'm 62. I may be the only person on here who has made his own PNP transistor from scratch (well, from silicon wafer). I did that as part of a 1965 Bell Labs project where 100 selected High School students were the materials and instructions on how to make one by hand. Mine was one of the 43 successful transistors produced by the high school students around the country. I too, have built computers, programed, and branched over to database design. . . Then into business management. For the last 30 years I've run my own business supporting other businesses' computers, both in PCs and Macs.
One thing I can say: once I converted a business to Macs, I generally made far less money from that business fixing problems. They had no problems! The Macs just worked. No longer was I called in to clean up the malware messes or even the incompatibilities caused by update Tuesdays with vertical solution software breaking with MS software patches. I stopped making so much money from them, but they remained convinced clients and highly recommended me to friends. . . who I'd make money from fixing their PC infestation until I could convince them the cost of Windows PC ownership was just too great. . . and the cycle would repeat. Every convert would essentially say "I can't believe I put up with Windows so long! What took me so long?" or "I can't believe how easy this is!" or "using a computer is FUN again!"
Ah, love it!! One of the original transistor pioneers! You have had a grand experience I’d say! Doesn’t get much better than that...