I think I'm one of the few (or many, I dunno) people that have been on this site for a decent amount of time, and just popped into existence sans introduction. Let's make up for that:
I'm an oddball person which tends to take an interest in all sorts of random things and have a random skillset (average at worst for enough of them) and am a pretty rapid learner. I take no interest in working for a sort of corporate or high-class business (they pay well, I know, but at what cost?). A freelance Swiss-Army Knife, so to put it.
I'm what you would call a brilliant but lazy individual; also a reason I take no interest in high-class work environments. Basically, I get the most education and come up with my best work mostly out of boredom. I also have more experience in different things than I let on if you were to meet me in person. Always a common mistake people make with me is that they underestimate me. I am New York born, and come mostly from Irish descent. That should provide a bit more insight to my personality.
Oh, and you think Dwarfguy2 was young in his introduction to computers? I learned how to operate a Commodore 64 at age 2 (kudos to my brothers for providing some awesome games as well; along with the Compute's Gazette game disk packages), and 386 computers at age 4-6 (whenever they came out). Hell, I was learning how to play games and operate DOS before my brothers finished reading the manuals (I still play games without reading manuals first, and I learn damn-quickly. Hell, I went from easier to medium difficulty with DJ Hero in the same hour of playing it (brand new to it, mind you), and it took me no more than 5 songs to get the hang of the game/controller.); but where I got the quickest progress in learning was, of course, with games. Hell, one time in Elementary School while computers were "exclusively for nerds", of all the kids in the school, I, in 1st grade I think, was the only kid in the entire school that knew how to operate DOS and boot up some of the programs some of the other kids wanted to use in the school library that required knowing how to operate a CD-Rom (and one of those really old ones that required an external case to use the CD). How my respect levels plummeted throughout the school years at that time happened, I don't know.
But anyway, that little story ought to provide some evidence that younger crowds operating computers is not too rare these days; then again, I think I understand the concerns of everyone else. There's just so much you can do during certain ages (don't want to grow up too fast); I think our main concerns is try to enjoy your age cluster with all the outdoor activities and such before you get sick of mankind and burrow yourself in your personal cave like some of us have. Live life before you give up on it, is an old saying of mine.
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