Scott I'm not "still" at university. I have partially completed a number of qualifications throughout my life. The first I did not complete due to poor mental health and financial stressors, homelessness and crippling PTSD. I half completed several higher ed qualifications in IT and computer systems engineering but despite having a lifelong interest in computers and tinkering were so boring I wanted to shoot myself (the content and focus delivered by institutions in terms of qualifications frameworks and industry expectations did not match my interests or evolving life direction). I'm now a lot older with a much better idea of what works for me (working within a realistic and authentic framework of how I operate in the world and leveraging my various quirks and strengths in ways that suit me rather than attempting to adjust myself to fit a system that has always been user hostile towards me). I am not studying with my entire motivation and reasoning hinging on some particular job or level of remuneration or expectation of fitting into a specific niche or societal framework, but out of a genuine and grounded interest in and passion for the subject matter. It's an addition to my own personal framework and self sufficiency, moreso than the added benefit of employability and income bracket that a piece of paper can provide. I have taken a very long and winding path and something wonderful about getting older is I can see the breadth of experience and knowledge I have gained along the way meshing into a rich and varied skillset that I can leverage in just about anything I choose to do. There are many things I regret but not the immense life experience I have gained through all of it. There is no standard linear path through life, we all have our own journeys. People choose to study for many different reasons, in all kinds of areas, at all ages. Although there are significant practical benefits to gaining tertiary qualifications at a young age if that enables a desired career path that supports one to live the kind of life they desire, not everyone is afforded the circumstances and support that makes this easily achievable. There are astonishing opportunity costs associated with different upbringings, family of origin, social barriers, that are only really understood by people who have lived through them. Access and capacity are largely underpinned by luck, circumstance, and inherited support networks, I would argue moreso than personal merit and hard work. In this respect I find societal expectations and normative frameworks for how to do life and function within the world as it is to be inherently ableist (a term I find problematic in this context but the most descriptive I can come up with in the moment). It pertains to the great lie of capitalism supporting some fantasy egalitarian meritocracy. But this has been a long winded digression hasn't it haha.
In answer to your question I started playing with red hat at 10 years old after a friend's older brother gave me a CD he received with a computer magazine.