From the covid-19 pandemic onward, I deviated from my studies to pursue programming full time: I joined the first cohort at 42 Lisboa as a student – I'd later join the team as a volunteer, and not even a full year after I found myself in the position of interim IT manager, helping to establish the very new campus of 42 Porto. Those were very exciting and demanding times, as my team and I handled very different issues on a day to day basis, doing everything between QoL scripting, more traditional SWE product development and system administration.

And then I quit the job to spend the Summer on a farm in Slovenia.

I have some thoughts about being a professional programmer, but it is very clear to me that I like it (programming) very much; and I've learned that one must be very careful with mixing what one does with pleasure, with what one does out of necessity.