@wim_v12e I am absolutely not someone who has “grit”. If I faced any of the difficulties that my spouse (embedded engineer) or black or gay colleagues faced in electrical engineering or software dev, I would have dropped out long long ago and pursued a career with less pain.

Instead I was given all the space and encouragement needed to figure out FFTs, SVDs, MPI, SIMD, etc., at my slow plodding easily-distracted pace, and fell in love with tech. It makes me mad and sad.