What've you all done in the 7-10 year gap?

[DavidCaruso]

lol jesus

• Graduated from high school, then college (with a Master's in AI)
  
• First truly close friendships, first romantic experiences, first heartbreak, first depression
  
• Learnt what keys and chord progressions were, finally. I fumbled my way through several MFGG music competitions without knowing!
  
• Dabbled in short films for a little bit
  
• Started working on my own videogame (first non-fangame ever, actually) and ran a successful Kickstarter campaign
  
• Changed the entire artstyle of the game after the Kickstarter (an incredibly controversial decision to this day, despite my best efforts to quench the flames -- read through this ResetEra thread to get an idea of what I'm talking about)
  
• Moved to Manhattan to work in finance, for a year and a half
  
• Quit finance to pursue game development full-time, three months ago. We'll see if I'm cut out for it, by this time next year!
  

I just turned 25 a couple months ago, so I'm in full quarter-life crisis mode -- which I'm sure is part of why I'm back here, 3:30AM at night. I didn't realize it until later, but it's absolutely insane that we had 20-25 year olds regularly posting on MFGG, back in the '00s! I can't imagine relating to that board culture now (as it was at the time).