i could have really used career advice and mentoring from people with different backgrounds some 25 years ago.

i had such limited access to educated adults who could show me the way as a lonely teenager in my shitty little home town up north.

i look at kids growing up here in the Oslo region and all the opportunities they have that i never had up there, and i realise that the game was rigged against me from the very start.

i made it here and got into computer programming, but not because i was guided into it. i just sat alone and figured out what to do. i mean, i'll give myself a pat on the shoulder for managing to do that with zero formal qualifications, but i know i could've done better with some guidance and people to serve as door openers.