Design and build levels - architectural power fantasy!

Good: I get paid to do something I enjoy; I don't have to wear a suit; I don't have to pretend that the 'grown-up' professional life is fulfilling or anything other than a mental prison any more.

Bad: You find out just how poor the available computer software is and gnash your teeth at how much money the head of the corporations that churn out such bug ridden crap earn; I'm sat immobile in front of a screen for most of the day; There are too few women in the industry - its dominated by sexist misogynists overdosed on the FHM -type belief system with a hefty dose of Neanderthal philistine thrown in.

I got immensely bored with being an architect, after one year practicing and seven in university training for it - you have to be very bored to give that up.

Actually driving around a virtual world I'd designed and built with all the things in it that architects aren't allowed to like or want to design any more if ever.

Pac Man - or Jelly Monsters as it was called on the Commodore Vic 20. I was eleven or twelve.

That would be it.

They all bore me senseless.

Hellgate - just so I can show my friends - look! he did something profitable with that strange approach he had to architecture!

Penguins.

Calista Flockhart - proof that attractive & weird women can be found in the world.

Refuse all entreaties to 'grow up' - total waste of time - you can be paid well and have a decent working environment all in exchange for staying a kid forever.

A world full of electronically enslaved zombies never leaving their homes - the governments want this to happen, they don't have to build roads or light streets then. They can spend all our taxes on whatever it is turns them on.