My favourite subjects in school and university were the humanities, but I landed in IT systems analysis which turned out to be fun for me, especially now I’m good at it, but I’m pretty trapped there by ok pay and a very generous retirement plan (we called it golden handcuffs back when there were many of us with access to it — since the early 2000s it got less generous.

I feel like I could run a brewpub in my retirement, I wouldn’t need it to survive as I’d be on a good pension indexed to the CPI*, and it would work as a one man operation

(Consumer price index, the cost of living)