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ACE 4, raised by my grandmother and alcoholic drug addict mother in the projects. I made it out only because my aunt gave me a handmedown PC when I was 13, I lucked out into a magnet high school, and was granted admission with full financial aid into MIT (and was somehow able to graduate in 4 years). Grateful for it every day.

After I birthed my first kid in my early 30s at the start of the pandemic, my struggles with depression and anxiety seemingly vanished.

I've always been very risk averse, so I fear I'll never be able to start a startup or something like that. It's always sounded fun. Now that I'm very stable and well, and ok financially (the house cost way more than I'd like)... it still feels too risky for me to leave my normal job. Maybe I'll try in my 40s...