Long story short: been into engineering from my early years, and by my late teens firmly set my eyes on microelectronics, to the extend I managed to self study it to the level of somebody on the second year of university program, but insistent parents were hellbent on sending me studying "businessy things rich people do" (or so they thought those do.) I somehow managed to get back into technology after graduation and work in an engineering consulting now, closer to the business side