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I am so proud of your lovely work ethic! Denmark seems like a really cool place and it is so great that you can work at a shop doing what you love! What is your favorite game, and where do you see yourself in five years? Do you have a career that you would like to get into or have any ideas what you would like to study at university?

I was working really hard when I was your age (I'm 35 now) to pay for videogames and electronics stuff and to be able to eat the food that I like, but I really wish that I had saved better so I could get things when I was older like a nice bicycle or car. I really hope that you continue working hard at your studies and that you get your choice of university and career!

There was this book, now widely discredited, that says it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something - but I have found that curiosity and wonder can really make that time much less and go by more quickly. From an old guy who took most of his life to figure out a lot of things - just keep doing what you enjoy and soak up as much time with friends and family as you can. I really enjoyed computers and now I work as a systems engineer, but there never was a moment when I was younger where it seemed like work or I was trying to prepare for a career... I just wanted to know how it all worked and put stuff together myself.

Thanks for making my day a little better and letting me connect for a second with 13 year-old me!