Hischool dropout. I later took a year of electronics with the intention of studying avionics, but it was put in hold due to mandatory military service in 2005. Then it was further put on hold because of a job offer that was tempting. And then further put on hold due to starting a nice career in 2008. I’m now 41, and I’ve long since concluded that I will never go back to studying. If I were to graduate with a masters in avionics or similar, I would earn maybe a 3rd of what I do now, plus my current job and career is pretty nice and cushy.

As for happy, yeah, I think so. I’m sure if I had any completed education, it would’ve probably been a lot easier the times I was between jobs. But at the same time, I suspect that if I had gone the traditional IT route I would’ve ended up in a more traditional IT job with all the nastiness that comes along with it; support tickets, fixed work hours, active directory, fixing printers, and worst of all: users.